fugg

See also: függ

English

Noun

fugg (countable and uncountable, plural fuggs)

1. Alternative form of fug
   1. Heavy, unpleasant atmosphere.
      • 1936, John Masefield, Eggs and Baker: Or, The Days of Trial, page 141:

        Touched by these sweet melodies, the company began to sing, and so with song and merriment came into Tatchester station, where they crawled from the fugg of the crowded carriage into the crisp October air, and found that the city had turned into a sour-smelling fog the mist which had lain like lawn on the meadows by the river.

      • 2013, Peter May, Freeze Frame: The Enzo Files 4, →ISBN:

        The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg.

      • 2013, Sax Rohmer, The Trail of Fu-Manchu, →ISBN:

        Some of the tables were upset, and there was a faint tang, perceptible above the fugg of the place, which told him that it was here the shot had been fired.

   2. Daze.
      • 2013, Peter May, Extraordinary People: Enzo Macleod, →ISBN:

        Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge.

      • 2013, Mark Kyburz, “Voi Altri Pochi”: Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925, →ISBN, page 57:

        The work of art (religiously) is a door or a lift permitting a man to enter, or hoisting him mentally into, a zone of activity, and out of the fugg an inertia"( 189-90; my emphasis).

      • 2015, Owen Elgie, The Circle of Fire, →ISBN, page 25:

        The fugg in my mind was starting to clear a little and I began to get a little more aware of what was going on.

   3. Confusion
      • 1935, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Criterion, page 44:

        It is not in group nature to distinguish very clearly between the live and the dead part of their equipment. The basket is, metaphorically, easier to handle than the cat inside the basket. Hence the fugg of universities and of academic abominations.

      • 1938, Ezra Pound, Culture, page 56:

        So dense is the fugg in that department that in my student days no senior had the faintest inkling of Dante's interest, Shakespeare's interest in living.

      • 1950, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, Lying awake: an unfinished autobiography and other posthumous papers:

        She genuinely believed that the ' working classes ' had ' different blood from ours, rougher ' and that this caused the fugg in the canteen.

      • 1980, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, George F. Butterick, Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, →ISBN:

        (All so much a fugg anyhow, such damn things; would to god we could both sit clean of them. Though I have hellish aches about Cid & all; I feel pretty much an idiot, now feeling the pinch, etc. But I can't see it was wrong; I couldn't take his interference, etc., especailly being so very well intentioned, etc. Fuck it. Ann says, when will you get famous so we can get out of here???)

   4. Euphemistic form of fuck.
      • 2000, Surfer - Volume 41, Issues 1-6:

        "Someone puh-leez shoot these surfer fuggs before I get out ma yacht and do some serious runnin' down! Who needs these hippy freaks?

      • 2004, Victor R. Beaver, The Sky Soldiers, →ISBN, page 269:

        The door opened. "Surprise! It's only me!" "Leo! Goddamn you!" "Hey, Kip, ole buddy, what the fugg you doing?

      • 2008, William Dunn, Boot: An LAPD Officer's Rookie Year in South Central Los Angeles, →ISBN:

        Weren't any love there; he never gave a fugg about me.

      • 2013, Joseph D Medwar, H. B.'s Big Heist: A Jack Lafoot Adventure Story, →ISBN, page 210:

        Santiago fired up the van, you could hear him screaming “let's go man, let's get the fugg out of here, the cops are coming!”

Verb

fugg (third-person singular simple present fuggs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)

1. Alternative form of fug
   • 1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 122:

     Find 'em, feel 'em' fugg 'em, and forget 'm is my motto.

   • 2009, John Murray, The Legend of Liz and Joe, →ISBN, page 74:

     'Fugg me stiff! Fugg me gently! Fugg me sideways!'

   • 2013, Jim Overmier, Silent Count, →ISBN:

     The players on the team paid close attention to Justin, although most of them couldn't hear him finish just about everything that he signed by mouthing the phrase, “Fugg you, fugg you!”

   • 2012, David Lodge, Ginger, You're Barmy, →ISBN, page 207:

     Oh fugg my duty.

Interjection

fugg

1. Alternative form of fug
   • 2000, Carl Muller, Yakada Yaka, →ISBN:

     Have to shoot all the sequences again. Delays! Delays! Retakes! My God, the cost of retakes. Oh fugg! Fugg! Fugg!'

   • 2008, Aleksander Granger, 70689AD, →ISBN, page 110:

     “Oh, fugg,” she swears as she scrambles out of the sofa, “Hello.”

   • 2008, William Dunn, Boot: An LAPD Officer's Rookie Year in South Central Los Angeles, →ISBN:

     “Oh, fugg, man,” he says. “That's fugged up!”