Fug vs Fig - What's the difference?
fug | fig |
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
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
As nouns the difference between fug and fig
is that fug is a heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area while fig is a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.As a verb fig is
to insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.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.
Anagrams
* ----fig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.Noun
(en noun)- I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
Derived terms
* caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a figVerb
(figg)- When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.