HAZE, HAZINESS, HAZY
ADJECTIVES
1824 ► SCAUMY misty, hazy; of an imperfect or disagreeable colour → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1831 ► NEBULOUS hazy, vague, indistinct, formless
1855 ► MOAK → MOKE hazy, dark → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1886 ► ROAKY hazy, misty (Bk.)
1887 ► SMURRY hazy, overcast, cloudy → Amer. dial.
1938 ► MOKEY → MOKY of weather: foggy, hazy → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1818 ► OOTHER a light morning mist or haze; the flickering haze that rises from the ground on a warm day → Sc.
1824 ► SCAM a film of vapour, a haze, mist, or shadow → Sc.
1824 ► SCAUM a thin haze, a light, misty vapour → Sc.
1848 ► NEBULOSITY haziness, cloudiness
1866 ► OAM a warm, stuffy atmosphere; a gust of hot air, a heat-haze → Sc.
1889 ► JACK STARTLES A STOOPY a shimmering of the atmosphere near the ground on a hot day; a heat haze → Sc.
1892 ► OOM an indistinct appearance or image of anything, as the loom of land through a haze → Sc.
1897 ► HASK a haze on the horizon foreboding wind → Sc.
VERBS
1871 ► SCAUM to envelope in a mist or haze; to shade → Sc.
1890 ► BUCK to haze; to swing a child against a stationary object or another child → Amer. dial.
1913 ► SMURR UP to gradually become a bit hazy → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1964 ► OOM to appear hazily through mist or darkness → Sc.
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