fug
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Origin of fug
First recorded in 1885–90; originally British dialect and boarding school slang; further origin obscure; compare earlier British slang fogo “stench”
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Example Sentences
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Amid the fug of confusion, MacNeice pulled up replay after replay for Berry to look at and - eureka! - appeared to be leading Berry in the direction of try.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024
Armies of young women emerged from the fug of subway stations every day to fill the offices of those magazines.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2022
It was filthy: lice-ridden, moldy, overpowered by the fug of overflowing latrines and rotting flesh.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2020
But the setup refuses to deliver, grammatically, and the novel hangs, like the narrator herself, in a fug of unresolved tension.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2019
I head back up the escalator, into the perfumed fug of the ground floor.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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