Fuggy vs Stifling - What's the difference?
fuggy | stifling | Related terms |
muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Clutha N. Mackenzie, title=The Tale of a Trooper, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Mac and Smoky scorned the fuggy atmosphere of the lower decks, and proceeded to select a breezy spot on the after boat-deck. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Horace Annesley Vachell, title=The Hill, chapter=, edition=
, passage="It's horribly fuggy in here, and I've Jambi[1] to do; but I'm not going till you give me your word that you'll leave young Kinloch alone." }}
That stifles.
:The heat was stifling ; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
The act by which something is stifled.
* 1857 , Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
Fuggy is a related term of stifling.
As adjectives the difference between fuggy and stifling
is that fuggy is muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation while stifling is that stifles.As a verb stifling is
.As a noun stifling is
the act by which something is stifled.fuggy
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(en noun)- Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.