fug

A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.

'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.

On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.

A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.

So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.

Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles.

A state of chaos or confusion.

There was a fug of fear in the room.

Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.

To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).

Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.

I'd walked down, for maybe the last time, from my lodgings behind New Fish Street, through air already fugged with smoke from the morning fires.

To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).

"Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers."

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.

To put into a fug (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.

To remain indoors, usually in a tightly closed room.

Euphemistic form of fuck.

He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.

Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah."

Euphemistic form of fuck.

Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?

You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.

Euphemistic form of fuck.

All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'

Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.