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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foggy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not have the faintest/foggiest notion (=not know or understand something at all)
▪ He had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to walk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
idea
▪ Her escorts pay when she goes out to restaurants or parties, so Pickles hasn't the foggiest idea about money.
▪ Not least because she hadn't the foggiest idea what they were shouting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a damp and foggy morning
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And look how foggy it was.
▪ He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later.
▪ It was a foggy, chilly day, without sunshine so the sea was murky and opaque.
▪ The equipment had worked, but there was nothing to see in this foggy, turbulent atmosphere.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foggy

Foggy \Fog"gy\, a. [Compar. Foggier; superl. Foggiest.]

  1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
    --Shak.

  2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

    Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit.
    --Hayward.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foggy

1540s, of the air, "full of thick mist," perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog (n.1) + -y (2). Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," is from the name of a marshy region of Washington, D.C., where many federal buildings are (also with a suggestion of political murkiness) popularized 1947 by James Reston in "New York Times," but he said it had been used earlier by Edward Folliard of "The Washington Post."

Wiktionary
foggy

a. 1 Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy 2 (context figuratively English) Confused, befuddled, etc.

WordNet
foggy
  1. adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" [syn: brumous, hazy, misty]

  2. stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous]

  3. indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]

  4. obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window" [syn: fogged]

  5. [also: foggiest, foggier]

Wikipedia
Foggy (disambiguation)

Foggy may refer to:

  • Fog, a type of low-lying cloud
  • Carl Fogarty, British four-time World Superbike Champion
  • Foggy Lyttle, British guitarist
  • Seymour Mullings, Jamaican politician
  • Foggy Nelson, a fictional character supporting Marvel Comics' Daredevil

Usage examples of "foggy".

Olva came back to his room and found Bunning, his white face peering out of the foggy mist like a dull moon from clouds, waiting for him.

Partly in the hope that I could somehow clarify those foggy, clairvoyant perceptions of danger and see exactly what violence lay ahead, and partly because I was determined not to be intimidated by the aura of evil that clung to the big machine, I shrugged off the backpack I had been carrying, unrolled my sleeping bag, and made ready to pass the last hours of the night right there in the faint patchwork of purple-black shadows and ash-gray moonlight, with the wheel looming over me.

Through the foggy, low-lying pastureland, around the northern end of Fidalgo Island to Anacortes, Kate followed the signs, finally steering down into a huge parking lot next to the water, where they were directed into a loading lane.

Abdullah and Sophie were suffused with foggy damp and then out into calm goldish light.

Father Butler, how best to describe the foggy parameters of the delayed psychoactive psilocybin experience.

Renny were still a bit foggy from their encounter with the rustling death.

These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are passed ouer, styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.

Once enfolded in the foggy embrace, Ambry drooped limply, his face lax and expressionless.

As a medievalist, she had only the foggiest impressions of anything prior to Constantine.

Soders, where white snowfields faded up into foggy hills, Ged took the boat southward again, and now they entered waters where the great traders of the Archipelago never come, the outmost fringes of the Reach.

Dodging tourists was part of living in Seavy Village -- just like the traffic and the foggy mornings and the pounding surf in the middle of the night.

And Hroc was awake, and Milo and Tash and Froo, and Flinx and Spear, and Sunflower and Throstle and two mice from Foggy Bottom.

But as his health deteriorated, Smith was forced to fight another battle with the State Department for wheelchair access to SA-10, the building in Foggy Bottom where the DSS agents were based.

The red glare of the vortex of those beams was lightened momentarily by a flash of brighter color, and through the foggy atmosphere there may have flamed briefly a drop or two of metal that was only liquefied.

It was foggy at sea, and the hastily summoned helicopters soon lost sight of the bees in the mist.