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mochy

mochy adjective: damp and hot; muggy, close.

Adjective

mochy

  1. (Scotland) Damp and hot; muggy, close.
    • They are preferable to the "mochy" days which so effectually retard the progress of harvest, and […]1919, London Grain, Seed, and Oil Reporter, page 6
    • Probably the warm, damp, "mochy" weather experienced at the end of September and the first few days of October is the reason for this. A week of such conditions, in which the blow-fly revels, can do much damage and cause great annoyance to the shepherd[…]1926, The Scottish Farmer, page 1322

Origin of mochy

From Scots or Scottish English moch ("muggy weather") + -y. Moch is of uncertain origin but it is connected to dialectal English (Yorkshire) moke (“mist, fog; thick/close foggy weather”), which is related to if not derived from Old Norse mǫkkr (“dense cloud or fog”), dialectal Swedish moket ("cloudy, hazy"). Scots mochy can also mean "decaying, as due to dampness/heat", a sense which the DSL compares to Norwegian Nynorsk muggen (“moldy”), German muchen.

Questions about mochy

What does mochy mean?
Mochy means damp and hot; muggy, close.
What part of speech is mochy?
Mochy is an adjective.

Words near mochy in the dictionary

  1. Mochs
  2. Mochuana
  3. mochulka
  4. mochulkas
  5. Mochulky
  6. mochy
  7. Mociu
  8. mock
  9. mock cream
  10. mock cypress
  11. mock duck

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