fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒɡ/
ipa: /fɑɡ/
ipa: /fɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: fogs
Etymology: Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Senses: examples: text: a bank of fog
text: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
text: Wallis and Curtiz eventually agreed to shoot Howard Koch’s preferred ending, with distraught Ilse^([sic]), still in love with Rick, going off with Laszlo to America, and Rick and Louis going off together into the fog. (In Morocco? Fog? Never mind.)
ref: 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: haze
mist
glosses: A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
synonyms: steam
glosses: A mist or film clouding a surface.
examples: text: He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
text: I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: daze
haze
glosses: A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Distance fog.
Hypernyms: fret
sea fret
garua
haar
ice fog
London fog
pea soup
soup
pogonip
rawk
sea smoke
tule fog
Derived terms: advection fog
antifog
brain fog
chemofog
cog fog
defog
dry fog
electronic fog
fever fog
fibrofog
fog bank
fogbank
fog bell
fogbound
fogbow
fog bow
fog collection
fog collector
fogdom
fog drip
fogfall
fog fluid
fog forest
fogfruit
foggable
fogger
foggish
foggy
foghorn
fog horn
fog juice
fog lamp
foglamp
fog layer
fogless
fog light
foglike
fog line
fog machine
fogman
fog mull
fog of war
fog oil
fog-pond
fogponics
fogproof
fogscape
fog signal
fog tsunami
ground fog
Gunning fog index
in a fog
knit fog
pea-soup fog
peasoup fog
pea soup fog
plait fog
prefog
radiation fog
smog
steam fog
superfog
unfog
utility fog
vog