Elvish is King! /fug

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Doreen also referred to my use of the word "fug" in my original 
> message on the main list.  I tend to think of that describing a 
> stifling and smoky atmosphere (fuggy), but it can also mean 
stifling 
> in the sense of being hot or humid.  It is a variant of fog.
> 
> Neil
> Fugging Ford Anglia

Using my favourite online dictionary:

FUG:
Sc. form of FOG n.1 

FOG n.1: 
  1. a. The grass which springs up immediately after the hay-crop has 
been taken off, aftermath.  b. The long grass left standing in the 
fields during winter; rank grass. (to leave) under fog: with the long 
grass standing. 

  c. ? A growth of this grass. Obs.1 

  d. ? A tangled mass. 

  2. Sc. and north. = MOSS. 

  3. attrib. and Comb., as fog grass, -harrow, -land, -moss. Also, 
fog-cheese = eddish-cheese; fog-earth, peat; fog-fruit (see quot.); 
fog-house (see quot.). 


So yes it is a variant of fog, but seemingly not fog as in thick mist.


Simon (being pedantic)