Meanings
- ScotlandDamp and hot; muggy, close.
[…] rain and close mochy weather.
1946, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 1933 more examples
They are preferable to the "mochy" days which so effectually retard the progress of harvest, and […]
1919, London Grain, Seed, and Oil Reporter, page 6Probably the warm, damp, "mochy" weather experienced at the end of September and the first few days of October is the reason for this. A week of such conditions, in which the blow-fly revels, can do much damage and cause great annoyance to the shepherd[…]
1926, The Scottish Farmer, page 1322[…] but there was rain at night and again on Sunday, which was dull all day. Tuesday was a real "mochy" day, with a close damp atmosphere.
1954 September 4, St. Andrews Citizen
Origin
From Scots or Scottish English moch ("muggy weather") + -y. Moch is of uncertain origin but it is connected to dialectal English (Yorkshire) moke (“mist, fog; thick/close foggy weather”), which is related to if not derived from Old Norse mǫkkr (“dense cloud or fog”), dialectal Swedish moket ("cloudy, hazy"). Scots mochy can also mean "decaying, as due to dampness/heat", a sense which the DSL compares to Norwegian Nynorsk muggen (“moldy”), German muchen.
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