fogboundadj.
/ˈfɒɡbaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈfɔɡˌbaʊnd/, /ˈfɑɡˌbaʊnd/ 1. Detained by fog; unable to travel because of fog.
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1814 P. Pindar (title) Royalty fog-bound.
1885 Outing Jan. 305/1 [He] made his way to the piazza of the Cove House, where he found a lot of skippers whose vessels were fog-bound in the cove.
1908 South Metrop. Gas Company Co-partnership Jrnl. Jan. 17 The Mooltan..stayed there fog-bound for two whole days.
1981 N.Y. Mag. 12 Jan. 44/3 Two couples are fogbound in the cheerless workshop-hangar of a New Jersey airfield.
2009 T. O'Reilly & M. Tennant Age of Persuasion vii. 159 On a foggy Thursday afternoon in February 1971, a man sat among a crowd of fog-bound passengers in Ireland's Shannon Airport.
2. Enveloped or obscured by fog. Also figurative.
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1822 Mirror of Stage 21 Oct. 95 We should wish to say a word or two to those who manage the stage lamps... The stench and smoke were horrible... We are not at all desirous of being fog-bound.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/3 And to our fog-bound window came A lantern-lighted ancient dame.
1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xxv. 255 He seemed as fog-bound as I was, a sweet-tempered English boy staying blasted on grass and coke.
2011 R. Pells Modernist Amer. ix. 254 The horror movies were therefore full of ominous lighting and treacherous shadows, lifeless forests and fog-bound swamps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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