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fever fogs

fever fogs is the plural of fever fog.

Meaning of fever fog

Noun

fever fog (plural fever fogs)

  1. Any mist rising from swampy ground, formerly believed to cause fever; a miasma.
    • Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about fever fogs

What is fever fogs the plural of?
Fever fogs is the plural of fever fog.

Words near fever fogs in the dictionary

  1. fever coat
  2. fever coats
  3. fever dream
  4. fever dreams
  5. fever fog
  6. fever fogs
  7. fever grass
  8. fever grasses
  9. fever lurden
  10. fever pitch
  11. fever powder

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