[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Oh, Fug!

[Roy & Wanda Mallett]

The same could be said for Revere, in the summer, the humidity is really fug
around here!
Wanda the Witch
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> "Neil Ward" wrote:
> <snip the Scottish stuff>
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> >>Longman's says: "Fug [informal] - The stuffy atmosphere of a poorly
> >> ventilated space."
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> In the US, we call this "musty"
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> >> Collins' Concise says: "Fug [Chiefly British] - A hot, stale or
> >> suffocating atmosphere."
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> In Iowa, we call this "summer"
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> >> Roget's Thesaurus lists "fuggy" alongside "stale, airless, musty,
> >>fusty, frowsty, frowzy...smoky, stuffy, suffocating, foul, noisome,
> >>noxious, sulphurous, mephitic & miasmic."
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> In the US, especially in California, we call this "smog", but what
> the fug ... you call it whatever you like. hee hee
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> Sweet Iowan Doreen ... *snicker* *giggle* *blush*
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