fug
pronunciation
How to pronounce fug in British English: UK [fʌg]
How to pronounce fug in American English: US [fʌɡ]
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- Noun:
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
Word Origin
- fug (n.)
- "thick, close, stuffy atmosphere," 1888. "orig dial. & School slang" [OED].
Example
- 1. What the fug is that swill ?
- 2. Open the window there 's quite a fug in here .
- 3. He went straight to his friend to fug ask for help .
- 4. There is a fug in here , please open the window .
- 5. At the time and through a fug of cigar smoke and alcohol fumes it struck me as a curiously conservative and negative definition of the role of the historian .