German

Noun

Fug m

1. Only used in mit Fug und Recht

Related terms

• Unfug m

English

Noun

fug ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fugs)

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. (figuratively) A state of lethargy and confusion.

Translations

Etymology 2

Sound shift from ****.

Interjection

fug

1. Euphemistic form of ****.
   • 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:

     It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.

Anagrams

• GFU

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fugu, afug, afugu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fugō < Latin fugiō. Compare Romanian fugi, fug.

Verb

fug (third-person singular present indicative fudzi/fudze, past participle fudzitã or vdzitã)

1. I run.
2. I flee.

Related terms

• fudziri/fudzire, fudzeari/fudzeare
• fudzit
• fudzu
• fugã
• fugar

See also

• alag
• plec

Etymology 2

From Latin fugō ‎(“I chase or drive away, put to flight”). Compare Romanian fuga, fug.

Verb

fug (third-person singular present indicative fugã, past participle fugatã or vgatã)

1. I hunt, eliminate.

Related terms

• fugari/fugare
• fugat
• fugã

Romanian

Verb

fug

1. first-person singular present tense form of fugi.
2. first-person singular subjunctive form of fugi.
3. third-person plural present tense form of fugi.

Yola

Noun

fug

1. fog

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)