fug
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk + fog.
Compound parts: funk
fog
Inflected forms:
form: fugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: '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'.
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.
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.
The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.
Inside, though, the little café was warm and bright, with a comforting fug of tea and baked bread and cakes.
gloss: A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.
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.
gloss: A state of chaos or confusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: There was a fug of fear in the room.
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.
But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.
Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.
gloss: To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
pos: verb
examples: Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.
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.
The rich sewer gases fugged around her and she shook her head, trying to clear it.
gloss: To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
pos: verb
examples: "Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers."
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.
gloss: To put into a fug (daze).
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To remain indoors, usually in a tightly closed room.
pos: verb
Derived words: fuggy
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