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the awkward middle child between dry and wet, beloved by mold and nobody else
means Slightly wet in a clammy, unpleasant way — moisture that lingers without quite being water you can see.
from From Middle English 'dampe,' meaning a noxious vapor or gas — a cousin of the German 'Dampf,' meaning steam or vapor. For centuries 'damp' wasn't about moisture at all but about the foul, suffocating air in mines (miners still speak of 'firedamp' and 'choke damp'). The clammy-moisture sense crept in later, the word drifting from poisonous fog to merely uncomfortable wetness.
- book record
- England's Domesday meant assessment, not dampness, despite the name
- mold's paradise
- thrives between 60 and 80 percent humidity
- sound killer
- engineers use damping to silence vibrations and noise
- old mining term
- firedamp and blackdamp were deadly underground gases
for instance
damp proof course — waterproof barrier in masonry, standard building requirement since 1875