mafting

Sense 1 and sense 2 can be compared to mafted (adjective), and sense 3 to maft (verb).

• (UK, Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈmaftɪŋ/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈmaftɪŋ(ɡ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæftɪŋ/

mafting (not comparable) (Yorkshire)

2. Causing one to feel overcome with heat; oppressively hot; stifling.
4. Of a person: Oppressed or stifled by the heat.
6. (obsolete) Of fog, etc.: drifting.

• maft
• mafted

• mafting hot

• “mafting, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2024.
• Bill Griffiths (2010), “mafted”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, 2nd edition, Northumbria University Press, page 319