boggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[boggy 词源字典]
1580s, from bog (n.) + -y (2). Related: Bogginess.[boggy etymology, boggy origin, 英语词源]
doggy (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
also doggie, 1825, from dog (n.) + -y (3). Doggy-bag attested from 1965. As an adj. doggy is attested from late 14c., from -y (2). The word has been used in various formations since at least late 19c. to describe the sex act when one partner is on all fours.
foggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1540s, of the air, "full of thick mist," perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog (n.1) + -y (2). Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," is from the name of a marshy region of Washington, D.C., where many federal buildings are (also with a suggestion of political murkiness) popularized 1947 by James Reston in "New York Times," but he said it had been used earlier by Edward Folliard of "The Washington Post."
froggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1610s, "full of frogs," from frog (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "frog-like" is from 1837. Related: Frogginess.
froggy (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1822 as a familiar name for a frog, from frog (n.1) + -y (3). As a disparaging term for a Frenchman by 1857.
groggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1770, "drunk, overcome with grog so as to stagger or stumble," from grog + -y (2). Non-alcoholic meaning "shaky, tottering" is from 1832, originally from the fight ring. Also used of hobbled horses (1828). Related: Groggily; grogginess.
loggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"heavy, sluggish," 1847, from log (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Logginess.
scroggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"overgrown with bushes," Scottish and northern English, mid-15c., from scrog (n.) "a stunted bush, a shrub-like plant" (c. 1400), probably related to scrag "a lean person or thing" (1570s); compare scraggly.
smoggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1905, from smog (n.) + -y (2). Related: Smogginess.
soggy (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1722, perhaps from dialectal sog "bog, swamp," or the verb sog "become soaked," both of unknown origin, + -y (2). Related: Soggily; sogginess.