{"id":14193,"date":"2012-09-07T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2012\/09\/07\/muggy.html"},"modified":"2012-09-07T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:55:30","slug":"muggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/09\/07\/muggy\/","title":{"rendered":"muggy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Anne noted in passing recently that it was muggy in Chicago, and I realized that though I've known the word all my life, I didn't know where it came from.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out (according to MW11) that it's from the dialect word <i>mug<\/i>, meaning &ldquo;drizzle.&rdquo; So I guess <i>muggy<\/i> originally meant drizzly rather than humid.<\/p>\n<p>While I'm here, I like the phrasing of MW11's definition of <i>muggy<\/i>: &ldquo;being warm, damp, and close.&rdquo; There are relationships that could be described that way.<\/p>\n<p>And it puts me in mind of other three-word sets, like &ldquo;fast, cheap, and out of control,&rdquo; but maybe that's a topic for another day.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Anne noted in passing recently that it was muggy in Chicago, and I realized that though I&#8217;ve known the word all my life, I didn&#8217;t know where it came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}