English
fug
Pronunciation Noun

fug

  1. A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
    • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, 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 ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
    • 2004, John Derbyshire, "Boxing Day", National Review, November 8, 2004
      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 dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
    • 2005, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
      The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
  2. (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
  3. (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
Verb

fug (fugs, present participle fugging; past and past participle fugged)

  1. To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
  2. To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
  3. To put into a fug (daze).
Translations
  • German: Muff
  • Russian: спёртый воздух m, духота́
Interjection
  1. Euphemistic form of fuck#English|fuck.
    • 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:
      It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.
Verb

fug (fugs, present participle fugging; past and past participle fugged)

  1. Euphemistic form of fuck#English|fuck.
    1. Used to express displeasure.
    2. To damage or destroy.
    3. To copulate with.
Noun

fug (plural fugs)

  1. Euphemistic form of fuck#English|fuck.
    1. (no plural, with the) Used as an intensifier.
    2. Something of little value.
    3. A contemptible person.


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