Meaning of fug | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
   countable, uncountable
2. Euphemistic form of fuck.
   singular, singular-only
3. Used as an intensifier.
   singular, singular-only
4. A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
5. Something of little value.
6. A state of chaos or confusion.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. A contemptible person.

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Examples

“'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'.”

“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 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.”

“The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.”

“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.”

“So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel⟳ so alive.”

“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.”

“There was a fug of fear in the room.”

“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.”

“Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.”

“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?”

“I mean⟳, who the fug cares?”

“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.””

“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 . . .'”

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