fuggs

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