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Fug vs Fig - What's the difference?

fug | fig |

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

  • A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 4
  • 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.
  • *2004 , , "Boxing Day", National Review , November 8, 2004
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
  • The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.

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    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)
  • 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
  • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
    Derived terms
    * caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a fig

    Verb

    (figg)
  • (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
  • * Shakespeare
  • When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
  • (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
  • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    Etymology 2

    Variation of fike.

    Verb

    (figg)
  • To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
  • Etymology 3

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