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How to pronounce fug in English?

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Type Words
Type of fog, fogginess, murkiness, murk
Derivation fuggy

Examples of fug

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Do your bit for the environment by descending into a fug of drooling illiteracy.
From the guardian.co.uk
With a husband and 3 boys they just combine with the general constant farty fug.
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I agree with you Sali re synthetics and the fug you get in department stores.
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Too much, and as one team hugged in jubilation, the other sank into a fug of despair.
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In the fug of anxiety and ancient air from peeling radiators, you soon lose track of time.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In a January mind fug, I got myself involved with Celebrity Big Brother.
From the independent.co.uk
When I visit, late on a Friday, the air is heavy with the fug of popcorn.
From the guardian.co.uk
Maximum Balloon suggests that light is penetrating Sitek's hypnotic fug, bringing clarity.
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I was up until 4 foolishly listening to music in a nostagic drunken fug.
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More examples
  • (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
  • (fugly) (slang) extremely ugly
  • D-442 FUG is a Hungarian armoured scout car based on the BRDM-1 armoured scout car. It is also known under its Czechoslovak designation OT-65 Otter.
  • The Fugs are a band formed in New York in late 1964 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders.
  • (The Fugs (album)) The Fugs is a 1966 album by The Fugs, described in their All Music profile as "arguably the first underground rock group of all time". The album charted #95 on Billboard's "Top Pop Albums" chart. ...
  • A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area
  • (fugly) deleted as not unique to Singlish or Singapore English: appears in the Online Slang Dictionary (entry submitted 1998).
  • The heavy air of a closed room; a stuffy or malodorous emanation
  • From The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; used as a substitute for "fuck"