# fug
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʌɡ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌɡ

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk +‎ fog.

#### Noun

fug (countable and uncountable, plural fugs)
* A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
** 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 131:'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.
** 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 4:On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
** 2004 November 8, John Derbyshire, “Boxing Day”, in National Review:The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
** 2005 July 16, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter; 6), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
** 2008, Terry Pratchett, Going Postal, →ISBN, page 288:That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.
** 2013, Benjamin Black, Elegy for April, →ISBN:Inside, though, the little café was warm and bright, with a comforting fug of tea and baked bread and cakes.
* (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
** 2011, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2, →ISBN:So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.
** 2015, Kate Riordan, The Girl in the Photograph, →ISBN:Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles.
* (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
** 2002, Chris Beckett, “Marcher”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, →ISBN:There was a fug of fear in the room.
** 2006, Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races, →ISBN:Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.
** 2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, →ISBN, page 7:But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.
** 2014, Robert Anthony Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History, →ISBN:Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.

##### Derived terms

* fuggy

#### Verb

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)
* To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
** 2008, Antony Moore, The Swap, →ISBN, page 231:Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.
** 2012, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, →ISBN:I'd walked down, for maybe the last time, from my lodgings behind New Fish Street, through air already fugged with smoke from the morning fires.
** 2013, Tom Pollock, The Glass Republic: The Skyscraper Throne, →ISBN:The rich sewer gases fugged around her and she shook her head, trying to clear it.
* To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
** 1921, Everybody's Magazine - Volume 44, page 38:"Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers."
** 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, →ISBN, page 74:The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun was fugging through grey clouds and making them light - still grey, but light, really light.
* To put into a fug (daze).
** 2011, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up!: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort Of., →ISBN, pages 34–35:The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind was fugged by this unfamiliar combination of hormones, slowly intermingling with indignity and contrition and the dawning of familiar, ignominious defeat.
* To remain indoors, usually in a tightly closed room. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Sound shift from fuck.

#### Interjection

fug
* Euphemistic form of fuck.
** 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.
** 2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN:Oh fug. Whad a mess.
** 2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN:“Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!”

#### Verb

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)
* Euphemistic form of fuck.
** Used to express displeasure.
*** 1948, Norman Mailer, Naked Dead, page 692:He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.
*** 1969, Seymour Blicker -, Blues Chased a Rabbit, page 62:Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah."
*** 2005, Joe Taylor, The World's Thinnest Fat Man: Stories, →ISBN, page 82:"Fug this place," Jeff said. "Let's go to the pier in case that jerk comes back with a gun."
** To damage or destroy.
*** 2007, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull: Stories, →ISBN, page 51:Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?
*** 2010, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 39:You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.
*** 2013, J. Michael Shell, The Apprentice Journals, →ISBN, page 7:Tell them every detail, so they can find an Apprentice again, because if they don't, they're fugged.”
*** 2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, →ISBN, page 33:He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: “'You'll just fug it up.'
** To copulate with.
*** 2014, Richie Unterberger, Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers, →ISBN:All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'
*** 2016, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 10:Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.

#### Noun

fug (plural fugs)
* Euphemistic form of fuck.
** (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
*** 1961, Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, page 21:I don't know jes where the fug he think he is at.
*** 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?
*** 2013, Ian McDonald, Out on Blue Six, →ISBN:I mean, who the fug cares?
** Something of little value.
*** 2013, Anne Lazurko, Dollybird, →ISBN:I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.
*** 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.”
** A contemptible person.
*** 1942, Army and Navy Journal - Volume 80, Issues 1-26, page 345:Look at those fugs!
*** 2012, Elizabeth George, The Edge of Nowhere, →ISBN:'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner . . .'

### Anagrams

* GFU

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* fugu, afug, afugu

### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *fugō, from Latin fugiō. Compare Romanian fugi, fug.

#### Verb

fug first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative fudzi or fudze, past participle fudzitã or vdzitã)
* to run
* to flee

##### Related terms

* fudziri / fudzire, fudzeari / fudzeare
* fudzit
* fudzu
* fugã
* fugar

#### See also

* alag
* plec

### Etymology 2

From Latin fugō (“to chase or drive away, put to flight”). Compare Romanian fuga, fug.

#### Verb

fug first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative fugã, past participle fugatã or vgatã)
* to hunt, eliminate

##### Related terms

* fugari / fugare
* fugat
* fugã

## Cornish
### Noun

fug m (plural fugyow)
* feint, forgery

### Adjective

fug
* counterfeit, fake, forged

### Derived terms

* fugya
* fug-
* hanow fug

### References

* Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
* Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 222

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin fugiō. Compare Romanian fugi.

### Verb

fug
* I flee, run, run away

#### Related terms

* fuziri

### References

* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/fug

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

fug
* imperative of fuga

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfuk/
* Rhymes: -uk
* Syllabification: fug

### Noun

fug
* genitive plural of fuga

## Romagnol
### Alternative forms

* fóg (Faenza, Old Faentino, Imola)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin focus (“fire”).

### Noun

fug m (invariable) (Central Romagna)
* fire
    Impiêr e’ fug ― To start a fight
    Ciapê’ fug ― To become angry
    Andêr a fug ― To catch fire
    Fug ad pàja ― A brief infatuation
    Fê’ fug e fiâm ― To shout
    E’ fa e’ fug sóta l’àquaHe’s very clever
    J’è coma l’àqua e e’ fugThey are hostile to each other
    Dê’ fug ― To ignite

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fuɡ]

### Verb

fug
* inflection of fugi:
** first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** third-person plural present indicative

## Yola
### Etymology

Cognate with English fog.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʊɡ/

### Noun

fug
* fog

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40