Pronunciations (3)
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/fʌɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɐɡ/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/fʊɡ/
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- Northern-England
Noun
A heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a crowded or poorly ventilated area.
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- Informal
- Uncountable
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"Someone's been too much for you," remarks Bistow, seating himself in the most comfortable chair, as a consolation for the prevailing fug.
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There was a blizzard on. The cold was something frightful. 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.
"I love this time of the year," she said. "So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive."
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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 13-year-old boys punching one 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, and the artificial light drained his face of all colour so that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy black hair.
The hub, or nerve center, of the coach business was a big shed next to the stable. It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars. 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.
A state of chaos or confusion; a daze.
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There was a fug of fear in the room.
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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.
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Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.
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.
Verb
To create a fug (“heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere”; etymology 1, noun sense 1) in (a place).
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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.
To surround (someone or something) with a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
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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.
To put (someone or something) into a fug (“daze”; etymology 1, noun sense 2); to confuse, to daze.
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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.
To create a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
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The hub, or nerve center, of the coach business was a big shed next to the stable. It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars.
The rich sewer gases fugged around her and she shook her head, trying to clear it.
Sometimes followed by up: to be surrounded by a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1), for example, in an enclosed, stuffy place.
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Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers.
Come out and try it. After a few days with us you'll be just longing to get back and fug it in your submarine.
Noun
Euphemistic form of fuck. Preceded by the: used as an intensifier.
Usage- singular
- singular-only
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I don't know jes where the fug he think he is at.
How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?
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I mean, who the fug cares?
Euphemistic form of fuck. Something of little value.
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I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.
After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, "I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story."
Euphemistic form of fuck. A contemptible person.
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Look at those fugs!
You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner […]
Verb
Euphemistic form of fuck. Used to express displeasure about (someone or something).
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He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.
Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah."
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"Fug this place," Jeff said. "Let's go to the pier in case that jerk comes back with a gun."
Euphemistic form of fuck. To damage or destroy (something).
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Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?
You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.
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Tell them every detail, so they can find an Apprentice again, because if they don't, they're fugged.
He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: 'You'll just fug it up.'
Euphemistic form of fuck. To copulate with (someone).
Usage- Transitive
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All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'
Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.
Noun
A cigarette.
Usage- Slang
Noun
(British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere