mochy

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.

mochy

1. (Scotland) Damp and hot; muggy, close.
   • 1919, London Grain, Seed, and Oil Reporter, page 6:

     They are preferable to the "mochy" days which so effectually retard the progress of harvest, and […]

   • 1926, The Scottish Farmer, page 1322:

     Probably 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 […]

   • 1946, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 193:

     […] rain and close mochy weather.

   • 1954 September 4, St. Andrews Citizen:

     […] 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.xɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɔxɘ
• Syllabification: mo‧chy

mochy m pers

1. nominative/vocative plural of moch