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fog

UK/fɒɡ/ US/fɔɡ/ fairly common uk
noun (3) verb (1)

noun

1.

droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

2.

an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

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3.

verb

1.

make less visible or unclear

  • “The stars are obscured by the clouds”
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Origin

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).

Phrases

  • advection fog
  • brain fog
  • cog fog
  • dry fog
  • electronic fog
  • fever fog
  • fog a mirror
  • fog bank
  • fog bell
  • fog out
  • fog up
  • Yorkshire fog

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