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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A form of air pollution produced by the photochemical reaction of sunlight with sulfur dioxide and other gases that have been released into the atmosphere by a volcanic eruption.

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  • noun Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[v(olcanic) + (f)og.]

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Blend of volcanic and smog.

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Examples

  • (Added: vog is volcanic fog, that is, the murky sulphuric haze burped by the volcano on the Big Island which can get particularly bad when the volcano is actively burping a lot AND when the trade winds, which blow out of the east, aren't blowing the vog west into the Pacific.)

    you know it's bad when your eyes are watering kateelliott 2008

  • Kona gets 10 inches of rain a year, but it experiences off-and-on plumes of volcano smoke and fog - called "vog" - that settle along the coast that turn the air into Los Angeles-in-the-tropics.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Kona gets 10 inches of rain a year, but it experiences off-and-on plumes of volcano smoke and fog - called "vog" - that settle along the coast that turn the air into Los Angeles-in-the-tropics.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • HONOLULU - A local researcher said what Hawaii residents often call vog is a mix of volcanic ash and pollution. advertisement | The islands have ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Coffee growers' convention 2010

  • HONOLULU - A local researcher said what Hawaii residents often call vog is a mix of volcanic ash and pollution. advertisement | The islands have ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii Tourism Inches Up 2.4% In Dec. 2010

  • A local researcher said what Hawaii residents often call vog is a mix of volcanic ash and pollution.

    KITV.com - Local New 2010

  • HONOLULU - A local researcher said what Hawaii residents often call vog is a mix of volcanic ash and pollution. advertisement | The islands have ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii Tourism Inches Up 2.4% In Dec. 2010

  • HONOLULU - A local researcher said what Hawaii residents often call vog is a mix of volcanic ash and

    WN.com - Articles related to Hawaii Tourism Inches Up 2.4% In Dec. 2010

  • [Sadly, this one's been edited down considerably:] "A vog is the video equivalent of a blog ... an informal, personal, desktop authored, low bandwidth, interactive digital movie."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • [Sadly, this one's been edited down considerably:] "A vog is the video equivalent of a blog ... an informal, personal, desktop authored, low bandwidth, interactive digital movie."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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  • uselessness commented on the word vog

    I just learned this word today. Apparently it's a Hawaiian term to describe a dark fog caused by volcanic ash in the air. In that regard, it's similar to smog (smoke + fog).

    March 6, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word vog

    What a very cool three-letter word. I wonder if there should be a list for fog terms. And then I wonder if they all rhyme with "fog."

    March 6, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the word vog

    Usage, from "The Explainer" on Slate.com:

    "Even without medical or radioactive waste, volcanoes already release dangerous gases into the environment. In Cameroon, carbon-dioxide pollution from a volcanic crater lake asphyxiated several thousand valley-dwelling people when it displaced the available oxygen. Active volcanoes in Hawaii have caused problems with acid rain and "vog," a combination of volcanic gases and fog."

    I got all excited thinking it was a new word I could add to Wordie. Not only did uselessness beat me to it, but I already knew this word, so... I beat myself to it...?

    January 10, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the word vog

    There must be a name for that sensation, or we'll have to come up with one. I do that 10 times a day on Wordie. :-)

    January 10, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the word vog

    Do you really, reesetee? Do you think it might be because--oh, I don't know--you have ELEVEN THOUSAND WORDS?!

    *is jealous*

    Wordometer envy.

    January 10, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the word vog

    Hmm. *stroking chin* Don't know. I'll have to think about it, c_b. Meantime, why don't you go add some words?? Mwwaaahaha!

    January 10, 2008

  • yarb commented on the word vog

    I knew someone called Vonig who was Vog to his friends.

    January 10, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the word vog

    Seems like a variant of fug. Also defined as a "Pejorative word using to curse men without having to slander dogs", on Langmaker.

    January 10, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the word vog

    I knew someone named Vishnyu Abeyguneywardena, but we called him Vish.

    Guess that's not quite the same.

    January 10, 2008

  • jennarenn commented on the word vog

    It's pages like this that make me want to print out wordie and bind it into a book. Wouldn't you just love to flip through the pages and hear the paper rustle? A year from now, will I remember this little thread? If I do, will I be able to find it??? I remember a similar episode on a long-forgotten word. Something about somebody wanted to display their leet knowledge of something. What will we do when we can't remember where to find all the good conversations? :(

    edit: I found it! The comment was made on ennui. My faith in Wordie is restored. :)

    January 10, 2008

  • jennarenn commented on the word vog

    Hee. It took me a few minutes to realize that eleven thousand words wasn't hyperbole.

    January 10, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the word vog

    The Gashlycrumb Tinies on YouTube

    January 10, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the word vog

    But jennarenn, we're counting on you to keep track of Conversations. Keep listing them! And anywordie who has such a list can put a link under conversations.

    January 10, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the word vog

    I'm trying to imagine the sound of flipping through Wordie pages....

    January 10, 2008

  • trivet commented on the word vog

    pbbbttt?

    January 11, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the word vog

    Haha!

    January 11, 2008

  • JeffreyW commented on the word vog

    Vog: Volcanic fog.

    The air in Hawaii is thick with vog.

    June 18, 2009

  • MaryW commented on the word vog

    Hawaiians are familiar with the thick haze they call vog, or volcanic smog. When trade winds blow from the northeast, the vog often wraps around the Big Island from Kilauea and settles over the more densely populated western coast. When winds are variable or blow from the south, vog can spread all the way up the Hawaiian isalnd chain to Oahu . . . and beyond.

    Near the active vents, vog is made mostly of sulphur dioxide droplets. Over time and at greater distances, those droplets react with sunlight and chemicals in the air to become more complex sulphur compounds, including sulphuric acid.

    Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe, Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World (New York: Island Books, 2015), ch. 8, p. 173

    February 18, 2019