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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