ETYMOLOGY

I was involved with a discussion about the etymology of the word 'muggy' which people use to describe oppressive, high humidity weather.  My friends thought it was used because the weather mugs you like a mugger attacks a person in an alley.  No way.  The word goes back to 1731 Scandinavia.  It was a derivation of the word 'mugen' and the old Norse word 'mugga' which both meant "Drizzly mist."  So there!
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