fugg
Alternative form of fug.
Interjection
- Alternative form of fug.
- Have to shoot all the sequences again. Delays! Delays! Retakes! My God, the cost of retakes. Oh fugg! Fugg! Fugg!' - 2000, Carl Muller, Yakada Yaka, →ISBN:
- “Oh, fugg,” she swears as she scrambles out of the sofa, “Hello.” - 2008, Aleksander Granger, 70689AD, →ISBN, page 110:
- “Oh, fugg, man,” he says. “That's fugged up!” - 2008, William Dunn, Boot: An LAPD Officer's Rookie Year in South Central Los Angeles, →ISBN:
Noun
- Alternative form of fug.
- Touched by these sweet melodies, the company began to sing, and so with song and merriment came into Tatchester station, where they crawled from the fugg of the crowded carriage into the crisp October air, and found...
- The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg. - 2013, Peter May, Freeze Frame: The Enzo Files 4, →ISBN:
- Some of the tables were upset, and there was a faint tang, perceptible above the fugg of the place, which told him that it was here the shot had been fired. - 2013, Sax Rohmer, The Trail of Fu-Manchu, →ISBN:
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Heavy, unpleasant atmosphere.
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Daze.
- Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge. - 2013, Peter May, Extraordinary People: Enzo Macleod, →ISBN:
- The work of art (religiously) is a door or a lift permitting a man to enter, or hoisting him mentally into, a zone of activity, and out of the fugg an inertia"( 189-90; my emphasis). - 2013, Mark Kyburz, “Voi Altri...
- The fugg in my mind was starting to clear a little and I began to get a little more aware of what was going on. - 2015, Owen Elgie, The Circle of Fire, →ISBN, page 25:
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Confusion
- It is not in group nature to distinguish very clearly between the live and the dead part of their equipment. The basket is, metaphorically, easier to handle than the cat inside the basket. Hence the fugg of universities...
- So dense is the fugg in that department that in my student days no senior had the faintest inkling of Dante's interest, Shakespeare's interest in living. - 1938, Ezra Pound, Culture, page 56:
- She genuinely believed that the ' working classes ' had ' different blood from ours, rougher ' and that this caused the fugg in the canteen. - 1950, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, Lying awake: an unfinished...
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Euphemistic form of fuck.
- "Someone puh-leez shoot these surfer fuggs before I get out ma yacht and do some serious runnin' down! Who needs these hippy freaks? - 2000, Surfer - Volume 41, Issues 1-6:
- The door opened. "Surprise! It's only me!" "Leo! Goddamn you!" "Hey, Kip, ole buddy, what the fugg you doing? - 2004, Victor R. Beaver, The Sky Soldiers, →ISBN, page 269:
- Weren't any love there; he never gave a fugg about me. - 2008, William Dunn, Boot: An LAPD Officer's Rookie Year in South Central Los Angeles, →ISBN:
Forms
Verb
- Alternative form of fug.
- Find 'em, feel 'em' fugg 'em, and forget 'm is my motto. - 1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 122:
- 'Fugg me stiff! Fugg me gently! Fugg me sideways!' - 2009, John Murray, The Legend of Liz and Joe, →ISBN, page 74:
- The players on the team paid close attention to Justin, although most of them couldn't hear him finish just about everything that he signed by mouthing the phrase, “Fugg you, fugg you!” - 2013, Jim Overmier, Silent...