Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room.
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- noun A heavy, musty, and unpleasant
atmosphere , usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think this book should have been called An Abundance of Fugs, mainly because the word fug (or some variation thereof) is used about 7500 times (not that I counted).
An Abundance of Katherines -- John Green Bill Crider 2009
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I think this book should have been called An Abundance of Fugs, mainly because the word fug (or some variation thereof) is used about 7500 times (not that I counted).
Archive 2009-07-12 Bill Crider 2009
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When Norman Mailer wrote his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, he used a euphemism -- "fug" -- for fuck.
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I think he used "fug" in The Naked and the Dead, unless I'm thinking of someone else.
Norman Mailer, R. I. P. Bill Crider 2007
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Dict.leo says the English word for this is "fug" but I never heard it before.
German words I've completely adopted C N Heidelberg 2009
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Dict.leo says the English word for this is "fug" but I never heard it before.
Archive 2009-07-01 C N Heidelberg 2009
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Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead."
A Boy's Life 2007
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I had bought a quantity of Cox's and Bramley apples with which to make some mincemeat, and having spent a morning in the kitchen inhaling the fug of warm spices, cider and the rich sweetness of cooked apples, I felt ready to bake a little something for immediate consumption don't you think that 'fug' is the perfect word for cider related activities?
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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I had bought a quantity of Cox's and Bramley apples with which to make some mincemeat, and having spent a morning in the kitchen inhaling the fug of warm spices, cider and the rich sweetness of cooked apples, I felt ready to bake a little something for immediate consumption don't you think that 'fug' is the perfect word for cider related activities?
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I feel like I'm trapped in a neverending continental balmy fug which is rendering everything utterly unfamiliar and alien.
Archive 2006-07-01 Alistair Myles 2006
john commented on the word fug
I'm listing this in memory of Norman Mailer, who was pressured into using it as a euphemism for "fuck" throughout his first book, "The Naked and the Dead."
Wikipedia has an amusing Mailer quote about his use of "fug", from a 1968 TV appearance.
November 14, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word fug
I heard it was Dorothy Parker who said that to him.
November 14, 2007
frindley commented on the word fug
Then there's pestilential fug. That's no euphemism.
October 12, 2008
Logophile77 commented on the word fug
A non-explicit word, being minced oath for "fuck".
December 10, 2017