Fuggy vs Sweltering - What's the difference?
fuggy | sweltering | 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." }}
(of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky
Fuggy is a related term of sweltering.
As adjectives the difference between fuggy and sweltering
is that fuggy is muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation while sweltering is (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.As a verb sweltering is
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sweltering
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(head)- The day was sweltering , so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.