Transcript of “Claggy Weather”
Here’s another handy weather word. That word is claggy, c-l-a-g-g-y. Any idea what claggy is, grant?
Is this got to be another scots word? its It’s regional around the uk. Oh, regional claggy.
Claggy. Oh, so I think this is so cloudy that you stay inside, stick your head out the window and shout at the weather. There are elements of that in the definition. The weather’s so bad you just shout at it. I don’t know. Well, it it originally meant a thick low-level cloud, damp and overcast, foggy and misty, but it has also come to mean unpleasantly close and humid, and that’s what I like.
It’s from an old word having to do with sticky things.
So similar to muggy.
Yeah, yeah.
I hate this sticky, claggy weather. It’s not conducive for sleeping.
Muggy, by the way, isn’t one of those terms that everyone knows in the English-speaking world. It’s more common in the U.S.
Is that right?
Yeah.
I didn’t know that.
I guess they’re talking about things being claggy over there.
