FUGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /fʌɡ/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /fɐɡ/
• (Northern England) IPA: /fʊɡ/
• Homophone: thug (th-fronting)
• 韻: -ʌɡ

語源 1

The origin of the noun is unknown; originally dialectal and school slang, it is possibly derived from or related to one of the following:

• Fog (“thick cloud that forms near the ground”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to blow; to be blown away”) and from Proto-Indo-European *pew-, *pewg-, *pow- (“to billow; to blow; to drift”).
• Fogo (“(UK, slang) stench”), a variant of hogo (“strong, unpleasant smell”), from haut gout, haut-goût (“(archaic) slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; (obsolete) piquant or strong flavour”), from French hautgoût, from haut (“high”) + goût (“taste”).
• A back-formation from fuggy.
• A blend of funk (“foul or unpleasant smell”) +‎ fog.

The verb is derived from the noun.

名詞

fug (countable and uncountable, plural fugs)

1. (countable, uncountable, informal, originally UK, dialectal and school slang) A heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a crowded or poorly ventilated area.
   • 1888, [Edward Frederic Benson], chapter I, in Sketches from Marlborough, Marlborough, Wiltshire: Cha[rle]s Perkins, the “Times” Office, →OCLC, page 16:

     "Someone's been too much for you," remarks Bistow, seating himself in the most comfortable chair, as a consolation for the prevailing fug.

   • 1934 January 1, Agatha Christie, “The Evidence of Colonel Arbuthnot”, in Murder on the Orient Express (A Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1960, →OCLC, part II (The Evidence), page 128:

     There was a blizzard on. The cold was something frightful. Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous.

   • 1962, Olivia Manning, chapter 26, in The Spoilt City ([The Balkan Trilogy; 2]), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part 4 (The Raid), page 283:

     "I love this time of the year," she said. "So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive."

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, “Prologue”, in Oyster, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, published 1998, →ISBN, 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 November 8, John Derbyshire, “The Straggler: Boxing Day”, in National Review, volume LVI, number 21, New York, N.Y.: National Review, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56, column 2:

     The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of 13-year-old boys punching one other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.

   • 2005 July 16, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “Will and Won’t”, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter; 6), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:

     The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside, and the artificial light drained his face of all colour so that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy black hair.

   • 2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, “Bonfire”, in Going Postal (A Novel of Discworld; 33), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 218:

     The hub, or nerve center, of the coach business was a big shed next to the stable. It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars. That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.

   • 2010, Benjamin Black [pseudonym; William John Banville], chapter 1, in Elegy for April […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     Inside, though, the little café was warm and bright, with a comforting fug of tea and baked bread and cakes.

2. (countable, figurative) A state of chaos or confusion; a daze.
   • 2002, Chris Beckett, “Marcher”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, →ISBN:

     There was a fug of fear in the room.

   • 2006, Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races, →ISBN:

     Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.

   • 2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, →ISBN, page 7:

     But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.

   • 2014, Robert Anthony Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History, →ISBN:

     Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.

   • 2015, Kate Riordan, The Girl in the Photograph, →ISBN:

     Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles.

派生語

• fug-footer, fug-soccer, fug-socker (“indoor football or soccer”) (UK, school slang, university slang)
• fugged
• fuggy (possibly)
• underfug (“underpants; undervest”) (school slang)

動詞

fug (third-person singular simple present fugs, present participle fugging, simple past and past participle fugged) (informal, originally UK, dialectal and school slang)

1. (transitive)
   1. To create a fug (“heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere”; etymology 1, noun sense 1) in (a place).
      • 2008, Antony Moore, The Swap, →ISBN, page 231:

        Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.

      • 2012, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, →ISBN:

        I'd walked down, for maybe the last time, from my lodgings behind New Fish Street, through air already fugged with smoke from the morning fires.

   2. To surround (someone or something) with a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
      • 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, →ISBN, page 74:

        The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun was fugging through grey clouds and making them light - still grey, but light, really light.

   3. To put (someone or something) into a fug (“daze”; etymology 1, noun sense 2); to confuse, to daze.
      • 2011, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up!: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort Of., →ISBN, pages 34–35:

        The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind was fugged by this unfamiliar combination of hormones, slowly intermingling with indignity and contrition and the dawning of familiar, ignominious defeat.

2. (intransitive)
   1. To create a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
      • 2004 September 25, Terry Pratchett, “Bonfire”, in Going Postal (A Novel of Discworld; 33), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 218:

        The hub, or nerve center, of the coach business was a big shed next to the stable. It smelled—no, it stank of—no, it fugged of—horses, leather, veterinary medicine, bad coal, brandy, and cheap cigars.

      • 2013, Tom Pollock, The Glass Republic: The Skyscraper Throne, →ISBN:

        The rich sewer gases fugged around her and she shook her head, trying to clear it.

   2. Sometimes followed by up: to be surrounded by a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1), for example, in an enclosed, stuffy place.
      • 1921, Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, page 38:

        Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers.

      • 1957, Neville Shute, On The Beach, page 214:

        Come out and try it. After a few days with us you'll be just longing to get back and fug it in your submarine.

語源 2

A variant of fuck.

間投詞

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.

   • 2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN:

     Oh fug. Whad a mess.

   • 2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN:

     "Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!"

名詞

fug (plural fugs)

1. Euphemistic form of fuck.
   1. (singular only) Preceded by the: used as an intensifier.
      • 1961, Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, page 21:

        I don't know jes where the fug he think he is at.

      • 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:

        How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?

      • 2013, Ian McDonald, Out on Blue Six, →ISBN:

        I mean, who the fug cares?

   2. Something of little value.
      • 2013, Anne Lazurko, Dollybird, →ISBN:

        I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.

      • 2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN:

        After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, "I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story."

   3. A contemptible person.
      • 1942, Army and Navy Journal, volume 80, page 345:

        Look at those fugs!

      • 2012, Elizabeth George, The Edge of Nowhere, →ISBN:

        You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner […]

動詞

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

1. (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
   1. Used to express displeasure about (someone or something).
      • 1948, Norman Mailer, Naked Dead, page 692:

        He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.

      • 1969, Seymour Blicker, Blues Chased a Rabbit, page 62:

        Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah."

      • 2005, Joe Taylor, The World’s Thinnest Fat Man: Stories, →ISBN, page 82:

        "Fug this place," Jeff said. "Let's go to the pier in case that jerk comes back with a gun."

   2. To damage or destroy (something).
      • 2007, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull: Stories, →ISBN, page 51:

        Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?

      • 2010, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 39:

        You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.

      • 2013, J. Michael Shell, The Apprentice Journals, →ISBN, page 7:

        Tell them every detail, so they can find an Apprentice again, because if they don't, they're fugged.

      • 2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, →ISBN, page 33:

        He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: 'You'll just fug it up.'

   3. To copulate with (someone).
      • 2014, Richie Unterberger, Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers, →ISBN:

        All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'

      • 2016, Julian Barnes, Metroland, →ISBN, page 10:

        Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.

語源 3

A variant of fag (“(Australia, Ireland, UK) cigarette”).

名詞

fug (plural fugs)

1. (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A cigarette.

参照

Further reading

• fug (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• GFU