raggy
adjEtymology From rag + -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”). Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related.
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Yorkshire, Dialectal, Especially, Obsolete, Possibly Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.
- It looks a bit rough wi' lyin' out thoose raggy neets.1874 (edition of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, page 157
- It's been nobbut raggy weather up o' the moors this winter.1892, David Grieve, Ward, III, book IV, vi: