More Fug! (-groan-)

[Neil Ward]

>>Longman's says: "Fug [informal] - The stuffy atmosphere of a poorly
ventilated space."

In the US, we call this "musty"

Amanda says: "Actually, in the US we generally call it a typo and fess up.
But this is loads more fun".

Oh dear...why did I start this? <g> I meant to say "fug"!  The whole point
of explaining it here was that it seemed that Doreen was either puzzled by
it or thought it was a typo:

Doreen:

<<*fug* ... is this some nasty English weather? Is that what you call
*fog* when you are really really mad at the weather? LOL>>

To me it was the aftermath of the "puff of green smoke" - a warm, smoky,
noxious, stifling cloud (like tobacco smoke in a pub?).  It was a word in my
memory that presented itself to me as the right one for the occasion.  I
must have picked up that usage from somewhere! Dickens, perhaps?

Neil (sounding like a bit of nutter... nothing new there)
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