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▪ I. fug, n. colloq. (orig dial. and School slang).|fʌg| [? Related to fogo. Cf. fuggy a.] A thick, close, stuffy atmosphere, esp. that of a room overcrowded and with little or no ventilation. Also fug-footer, -soccer, -socker School and University slang, indoor football.
1888E. F. Benson Sks. fr. Marlborough i. 16 Seating himself in the most comfortable chair, as a consolation for the prevailing fug. 1905C. 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. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. viii. 663 Nigel had booked himself to play fug-socker with three hearty Trindogs of Trinity. 1915‘Bartimeus’ A Tall Ship iv. 78 We get up quite a good fug in our case⁓mate at night. Ibid. ix. 171 ‘Pouf!’ he exclaimed. ‘What a fug!’ And elevated his nose with a sniff. 1923U. L. Silberrad Lett. J. Armiter x. 214 Can you smell the cold damp fug of those wet Sunday afternoons..? 1925Chambers'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. 1927W. Deeping Kitty xvii, It [sc. a sickroom] smelt like a greenhouse, full of soft fug. 1940M. Marples Pub. Sch. Slang 85 Fug-footer (Harrow, 1884 +), indoor football. 1948G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites i. 29 The fug of the room. 1968J. 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. Hence fug v. intr., to stay in a stuffy atmosphere. Also with up. Hence fugged ppl. a., stuffy, thick.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 387/2 To fug (Shrewsbury), to stay in a close, stuffy room. 1919W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) ii. 35 Others were ‘fugging’ in the house or had gone to bed. 1921A. 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. 1971H. C. Rae Marksman i. v. 45 The room was stuffy, fugged with tobacco smoke. ▪ II. fug Sc. form of fog n.1 |