fugn.
/fʌɡ/, U.S. /fəɡ/ colloquial (originally dialect and School slang).
A thick, close, stuffy atmosphere, esp. that of a room overcrowded and with little or no ventilation.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [noun] > bad air
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1888 E. F. Benson Sketches from Marlborough i. 16 Seating himself in the most comfortable chair, as a consolation for the prevailing fug.
1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship iv. 78 We get up quite a good fug in our case~mate at night.
1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship ix. 171 ‘Pouf!’ he exclaimed. ‘What a fug!’ And elevated his nose with a sniff.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter x. 214 Can you smell the cold damp fug of those wet Sunday afternoons..?
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 556/1 The ‘fug’ that could be got up inside these huts was sheer bliss to many a trench-weary soldier during the war.
1927 W. Deeping Kitty xvii. 216 It [sc. a sickroom] smelt like a greenhouse, full of soft fug.
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites i. 29 The fug of the room.
1968 J. E. Matthews Brew's Youth & Youth Groups (ed. 2) x. 149 There are only three necessities—light,..warmth, and if we cater for boys this often means a ‘fug’—and comradeship.
Derivatives
fug-footer n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > other forms of football > [noun] > indoor or irregular football
kick-about1877
speedball1923
fug-footer1940
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 85 Fug-footer (Harrow, 1884 +), indoor football.
fug-soccer n.
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1905 C. Ranger-Gull Harvest of Love i. 10 He met a group of school-house boys carrying a round football. They had been playing ‘fug-soccer’ in the racquet courts.
fug-socker n. School slang and University slang indoor football.
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1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. viii. 663 Nigel had booked himself to play fug-socker with three hearty Trindogs of Trinity.
Derivatives
fug v. (intransitive) to stay in a stuffy atmosphere. Also with up.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (intransitive)] > stay in unventilated place
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1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 387/2 To fug (Shrewsbury), to stay in a close, stuffy room.
1919 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) ii. 35 Others were ‘fugging’ in the house or had gone to bed.
1921 A. S. M. Hutchinson If Winter Comes ii. v. 122 I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd.
fugged adj. stuffy, thick.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [adjective] > bad air > not ventilated
fat1598
airlessa1616
unaired1682
unventilated1712
unperflated1768
mochy1825
fuggy1888
fugged1971
1971 H. C. Rae Marksman i. v. 45 The room was stuffy, fugged with tobacco smoke.
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