Frug vs Fug - What's the difference?
frug | fug |
a novelty dance of 1960s America fame
* {{quote-book
, passage=They were doing a modified frug , a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
, page=166
, title=East is East: A Novel
, author=T. Coraghessan Boyle
, publisher=Viking
, year=1990
, isbn=0670832200}}
* {{quote-book
, passage=In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug , their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.
, page=158
, title=The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982
, author=Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston
, publisher=Duke University Press
, year=1991
, isbn=0822311666}}
English terms with unknown etymologies
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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 a proper noun frug
is a novelty dance of 1960s america fame.As a noun fug is
only used in mit fug und recht.frug
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)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.