different between vug vs fug

English

Alternative forms

• vugh
• vogle

Etymology

From Cornish vooga (“cave”); compare fogou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Noun

vug (plural vugs)

1. A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.

Derived terms

• vugginess
• vuggy, vughy

Anagrams

• guv

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk +? fog.

Noun

fug (countable and uncountable, plural fugs)

1. A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, 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, John Derbyshire, "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, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42

     The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
2. (figuratively) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
3. (figuratively) A state of chaos or confusion.

Verb

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)

1. To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
2. To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
3. To put into a fug (daze).
4. To remain indoors, usually understood as being in a tightly closed room.

Translations

Etymology 2

Sound shift from fuck.

Interjection

fug

1. Euphemistic form of fuck.
   • 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:

     It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.

Verb

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged)

1. Euphemistic form of fuck.
   1. Used to express displeasure.
   2. To damage or destroy.
   3. To copulate with.

Noun

fug (plural fugs)

1. Euphemistic form of fuck.
   1. (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
   2. Something of little value.
   3. A contemptible person.

Anagrams

• GFU

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fugu, afug, afugu

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *fug?, from Latin fugi?. Compare Romanian fugi, fug.

Verb

fug (third-person singular present indicative fudzi / fudze, past participle fudzitã or vdzitã)

1. I run.
2. I flee.

Related terms

• fudziri / fudzire, fudzeari / fudzeare
• fudzit
• fudzu
• fugã
• fugar

See also

• alag
• plec

Etymology 2

From Latin fug? (“I chase or drive away, put to flight”). Compare Romanian fuga, fug.

Verb

fug (third-person singular present indicative fugã, past participle fugatã or vgatã)

1. I hunt, eliminate.

Related terms

• fugari / fugare
• fugat
• fugã

Cornish

Noun

fug m (plural fugyow)

1. feint, forgery

Adjective

fug

1. counterfeit, fake, forged

Derived terms

• fugya
• fug-
• hanow fug

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.222)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fug

1. imperative of fuga

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuk/

Noun

fug

1. genitive plural of fuga

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fu?]

Verb

fug

1. inflection of fugi:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English fog.

Noun

fug

1. fog

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN