fugg

Noun

fugg (countable and uncountable, plural fuggs)

1. Heavy, unpleasant atmosphere.
   • Touched by these sweet melodies, the company began to sing, and so with song and merriment came into Tatchester station, where they crawled from the fugg of the crowded carriage into the crisp October air, and found that the city had turned into a sour-smelling fog the mist which had lain like lawn...1936, John Masefield, Eggs and Baker: Or, The Days of Trial, page 141
   • The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg.2013, Peter May, Freeze Frame: The Enzo Files 4, →ISBN
2. Daze.
   • Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge.2013, Peter May, Extraordinary People: Enzo Macleod, →ISBN
   • The work of art (religiously) is a door or a lift permitting a man to enter, or hoisting him mentally into, a zone of activity, and out of the fugg an inertia"( 189-90; my emphasis).2013, Mark Kyburz, “Voi Altri Pochi”: Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925, →ISBN, page 57
3. Confusion
   • It is not in group nature to distinguish very clearly between the live and the dead part of their equipment. The basket is, metaphorically, easier to handle than the cat inside the basket. Hence the fugg of universities and of academic abominations.1935, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Criterion, page 44
   • So dense is the fugg in that department that in my student days no senior had the faintest inkling of Dante's interest, Shakespeare's interest in living.1938, Ezra Pound, Culture, page 56