fugg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuggs
Senses: examples: text: Touched by these sweet melodies, the company began to sing, and so with song and merriment came into Tatchester station, where they crawled from the fugg of the crowded carriage into the crisp October air, and found that the city had turned into a sour-smelling fog the mist which had lain like lawn on the meadows by the river.
ref: 1936, John Masefield, Eggs and Baker: Or, The Days of Trial, page 141:
text: The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg.
ref: 2013, Peter May, Freeze Frame: The Enzo Files 4, →ISBN:
text: Some of the tables were upset, and there was a faint tang, perceptible above the fugg of the place, which told him that it was here the shot had been fired.
ref: 2013, Sax Rohmer, The Trail of Fu-Manchu, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fug.
Heavy, unpleasant atmosphere.
examples: text: Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge.
ref: 2013, Peter May, Extraordinary People: Enzo Macleod, →ISBN:
text: The work of art (religiously) is a door or a lift permitting a man to enter, or hoisting him mentally into, a zone of activity, and out of the fugg an inertia"( 189-90; my emphasis).
ref: 2013, Mark Kyburz, “Voi Altri Pochi”: Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The fugg in my mind was starting to clear a little and I began to get a little more aware of what was going on.
ref: 2015, Owen Elgie, The Circle of Fire, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of fug.
Daze.
examples: text: It is not in group nature to distinguish very clearly between the live and the dead part of their equipment. The basket is, metaphorically, easier to handle than the cat inside the basket. Hence the fugg of universities and of academic abominations.
ref: 1935, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Criterion, page 44:
text: So dense is the fugg in that department that in my student days no senior had the faintest inkling of Dante's interest, Shakespeare's interest in living.
ref: 1938, Ezra Pound, Culture, page 56:
text: She genuinely believed that the ' working classes ' had ' different blood from ours, rougher ' and that this caused the fugg in the canteen.
ref: 1950, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, Lying awake: an unfinished autobiography and other posthumous papers:
text: (All so much a fugg anyhow, such damn things; would to god we could both sit clean of them. Though I have hellish aches about Cid & all; I feel pretty much an idiot, now feeling the pinch, etc. But I can't see it was wrong; I couldn't take his interference, etc., especailly being so very well intentioned, etc. Fuck it. Ann says, when will you get famous so we can get out of here???)
ref: 1980, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, George F. Butterick, Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fug.
Confusion
examples: text: "Someone puh-leez shoot these surfer fuggs before I get out ma yacht and do some serious runnin' down! Who needs these hippy freaks?
ref: 2000, Surfer - Volume 41, Issues 1-6:
text: The door opened. "Surprise! It's only me!" "Leo! Goddamn you!" "Hey, Kip, ole buddy, what the fugg you doing?
ref: 2004, Victor R. Beaver, The Sky Soldiers, →ISBN, page 269:
text: Weren't any love there; he never gave a fugg about me.
ref: 2008, William Dunn, Boot: An LAPD Officer's Rookie Year in South Central Los Angeles, →ISBN:
text: Santiago fired up the van, you could hear him screaming “let's go man, let's get the fugg out of here, the cops are coming!”
ref: 2013, Joseph D Medwar, H. B.'s Big Heist: A Jack Lafoot Adventure Story, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: Alternative form of fug.
Euphemistic form of fuck.