Dug vs Fug - What's the difference?
dug | fug |
A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 4
*2004 , , "Boxing Day", National Review , November 8, 2004
* 2005 , , Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
As nouns the difference between dug and fug
is that dug is mammary gland on domestic mammal containing more than two breasts while fug is a heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.As a verb dug
is past tense of dig.fug
English
Noun
- On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
- The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
- The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.