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語源

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /smɒɡ/
• (米国発音) enPR: smäg, IPA: /smɑɡ/ also IPA: /smɔɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

名詞

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

1. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

   • 1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times‎:

     A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.

   • 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:

     Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.

下位語

• black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
• photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
• summer smog

派生語

動詞

smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)

1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

   If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

参考

• smaze
• dry fog, dry haze, haze

参照

• “smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• MGOs, Goms, GMOs, goms, mogs