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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fug (fug),USA pronunciation n. - stale air, esp. the humid, warm, ill-smelling air of a crowded room, kitchen, etc.
- 1885–90; of obscure origin, originally; compare earlier Brit. slang fogo stench
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fug /fʌɡ/ n - chiefly Brit a hot, stale, or suffocating atmosphere
Etymology: 19th Century: perhaps variant of fog1ˈfuggy adj -fug-, root. - -fug- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "flee;
move;
run.'' This meaning is found in such words as: centrifugal, centrifuge, fugitive, fugue, refuge, subterfuge.
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