A dialectal or obsolete term, possibly relating to something blue-gray or sluggish, though the exact meaning is archaic and unclear.
Etymology uncertain; possibly from blue + -y suffix with dialectal origins, or from an obsolete word for a type of fish or tool.
Bluggy is one of those wonderful English words that linguists find in 200-year-old texts but can't quite translate, reminding us how much vocabulary has been forgotten.
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