Unknown. Compare British slangfogo(“stench”) andEnglishfog, or possibly ablend offunk +fog.
fug (countable anduncountable,pluralfugs)
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasantatmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
1934,Agatha Christie, chapter 8, inMurder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published2017, page131:'Made one quite thankful to get back to thefug, 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 ghastlyfug of the tunnels and shafts.
2004 November 8,John Derbyshire, “Boxing Day”, inNational 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 densefug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
2008, Terry Pratchett,Going Postal,→ISBN, page288:That's what afug 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 comfortingfug of tea and baked bread and cakes.
- (figurative) A state oflethargy andconfusion;daze.
2011, Olivia Manning,The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2,→ISBN:So delicious after thefug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.
2015, Kate Riordan,The Girl in the Photograph,→ISBN:Somewhere in thefug 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 ofchaos orconfusion.
2002, Chris Beckett, “Marcher”, inThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection,→ISBN:There was afug 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 afug of self-righteous superiority.
2013, Helen Fielding,Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy,→ISBN, page 7:But now am in totalfug 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 afug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.
fug (third-person singular simple presentfugs,present participlefugging,simple past and past participlefugged)
- To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
2008, Antony Moore,The Swap,→ISBN, page231:Inside, the Golden Lion wasfugged 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 alreadyfugged with smoke from the morning fires.
2013, Tom Pollock,The Glass Republic: The Skyscraper Throne,→ISBN:The rich sewer gasesfugged 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, page38:"Well, I like it a jolly sight better thanfugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers."
2005, Craig Taylor,Light,→ISBN, page74:The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun wasfugging 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, pages34–35:The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind wasfugged 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 anexample for this sense?)
A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area
Sound shift fromfuck.
fug
- Euphemistic form offuck.
1985, Herbert A. Applebaum,Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page126:It's always somethin' or other. Ah,fug it. I'm away now.
2012, Drew Campbell,Dead Letter House,→ISBN:Ohfug. Whad a mess.
2015, Lynn Lindquist,Secret of the Sevens,→ISBN:“Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Ohfug!”
fug (third-person singular simple presentfugs,present participlefugging,simple past and past participlefugged)
- Euphemistic form offuck.
- Used to express displeasure.
1948, Norman Mailer,Naked Dead, page692: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, page62: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, page82:"Fug this place," Jeff said. "Let's go to the pier in case that jerk comes back with a gun."
- Todamage ordestroy.
2007, Paul Mitchell,Dodging the Bull: Stories,→ISBN, page51:Zit my fault the rotaryfugged up and the new one's buggered?
2010, Julian Barnes,Metroland,→ISBN, page39:You mean like in Zola–because they werefugged 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'refugged.”
2013, Jonathan Miles,Want Not,→ISBN, page33:He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: “'You'll justfug it up.'
- Tocopulate 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 tofug me.'
2016, Julian Barnes,Metroland,→ISBN, page10:Married, two children, doesn't let himfug her any more.
fug (pluralfugs)
- Euphemistic form offuck.
- (singular only, with the)Used as anintensifier.
1961, Robert Gover,One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, page21:I don't know jes where thefug he think he is at.
2013, Dan Ferullo,Monster Hill,→ISBN:How thefug does a thug like you know about any preacher?
2013, Ian McDonald,Out on Blue Six,→ISBN:I mean, who thefug cares?
- Something of little value.
2013, Anne Lazurko,Dollybird,→ISBN:I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give afug either.
2013, Dan Ferullo,Monster Hill,→ISBN:After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give afug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.”
- Acontemptible person.
1942,Army and Navy Journal - Volume 80, Issues 1-26, page345:Look at thosefugs!
2012, Elizabeth George,The Edge of Nowhere,→ISBN:'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such afug of a loser an' him such afug of a winner . . .'
FromVulgar Latin*fugō, fromLatinfugiō. CompareRomanianfugi,fug.
fugfirst-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicativefudziorfudze,past participlefudzitãorvdzitã)
- torun
- toflee
FromLatinfugō(“to chase or drive away, put to flight”). CompareRomanianfuga, fug.
fugfirst-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicativefugã,past participlefugatãorvgatã)
- tohunt,eliminate
fug m (pluralfugyow)
- feint,forgery
fug
- counterfeit,fake,forged
- Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
- Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish),2018, published2018, page222
FromLatinfugiō.[1] CompareRomanianfugi.
fug
- Iflee,run,run away
fug
- imperative offuga
- IPA(key): /ˈfuk/
- Rhymes:-uk
- Syllabification:fug
fug
- genitiveplural offuga
Inherited fromLatinfocus(“fire”).
fug m (invariable)(Central Romagna)
- fire
- Impiêr e’fug ―To start a fight
- Ciapê’fug ―To become angry
- Andêr afug ―To catch fire
- Fug ad pàja ―A brief infatuation
- Fê’fug e fiâm ―To shout
E’ fa e’fug sóta l’àqua- He’s very clever
J’è coma l’àqua e e’fug- They are hostile to each other
- Dê’fug ―To ignite
fug
- inflection offugi:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- third-personpluralpresentindicative
Cognate withEnglishfog.
fug
- fog
- 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, published1867,page40
