adjective, fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est.
- thick with or having much a foggy valley; a foggy spring day.; misty:
- covered or enveloped as if with a foggy mirror.:
- blurred or obscured as if by I haven’t the foggiest notion of where she went.; not clear; vague:
- bewildered; perplexed.
- Photography. affected by .
adjective -gier or -giest
- thick with fog
- obscure or confused
- another word for
- not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea or not the foggiest notion no idea whatsoeverI haven’t the foggiest
1540s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from Foggy Bottom “U.S. Department of State,” 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.”(n.1) + (2).