OVERCAST
ADJECTIVES
► BANGY of weather: drizzling, overcast; misty; stormy → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BENGY cloudy, overcast → 1851 Eng. dial.
► BLACK of wind or weather: foul, overcast → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► SMEARED of the sky: overcast → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SMURRY hazy, overcast, cloudy → 1887 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► MIRK to darken, overcast → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SKEW to become overcast → c1400 obs.
► SMEAR IN of the weather: to become overcast → 1975 Amer. dial.
Lexicophilia 