fugging

Verb (1)

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)

1. (transitive) To create a fug (“heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere”; etymology 1, noun sense 1) in (a place).
   • Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.2008, Antony Moore, The Swap, →ISBN, page 231
2. (transitive) To surround (someone or something) with a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
   • The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun was fugging through grey clouds and making them light - still grey, but light, really light.2005, Craig Taylor, Light, →ISBN, page 74
3. (transitive) To put (someone or something) into a fug (“daze”; etymology 1, noun sense 2); to confuse, to daze.
   • The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind was fugged by this unfamiliar combination of hormones, slowly intermingling with indignity and contrition and the dawning of familiar, ignominious defeat.2011, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up!: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort Of., →ISBN, pages 34–35
4. (intransitive) To create a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
   • The hub, or nerve center, of the coach business was a big shed next to the stable. It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars.2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, “Bonfire”, in Going Postal (A Novel of Discworld; 33), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 218
5. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: to be surrounded by a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1), for example, in an enclosed, stuffy place.
   • Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers.1921, Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, page 38

Verb (2)

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)

1. (transitive) Used to express displeasure about (someone or something).
   • He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.1948, Norman Mailer, Naked Dead, page 692

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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
2. Daze.
   • Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge.2013, Peter May, Extraordinary People: Enzo Macleod, →ISBN
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