STUFFY
ADJECTIVES
1847 — SMUDGY stifling, stuffy → Eng. dial.
1888 — FUGGY close, stuffy, and smelly, from want of ventilation; said of the air in a room → colloq.
1942 — POKING stuffy → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — STUFFISH stuffy → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — STUFFOCATING stuffy, suffocating → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1888 — FUG a thick, close, stuffy atmosphere, esp. that of an overcrowded room with little or no ventilation → colloq.
VERBS
1839 — FUSTICATE to stay in a close stuffy atmosphere; to make fusty or musty
1884 — FROUST → FROWST to take pleasure in staying in a warm, close, stuffy atmosphere
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