Fud vs Fug - What's the difference?
fud | fug |
(derogatory) , a marketing strategy involving the spread of worrisome information about a competing product.
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 fud and fug
is that fud is alternative case form of FUD while fug is a heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.As an acronym FUD
is Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, a marketing strategy involving the spread of worrisome information about a competing product.fud
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Alternative forms
* fud, Fud (rare in comparison to "FUD" )Acronym
(Acronym) (head)fug
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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.