fog

noun

/fɒɡ/UK/fɔɡ//fɑɡ/US/fɒɡ/CA

Etymology

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”).

derived from *pug-✻ — “billow, bulge, drift”
derived from *feukaną✻ — “to whisk, blow”
borrowed from fog — “spray, shower, drift, storm”

Definitions

1
A thick cloud that forms near the ground
A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- a bank of fog
A mist or film clouding a surface.
3
A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
- I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
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1. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
2. Distance fog.
3. To become covered with or as if with fog.
4. 7
  To become obscured in condensation or water.
  - The mirror fogged every time he showered.
5. To become dim or obscure.
6. To make dim or obscure.
7. To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a…
  To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
8. 11
  To cover with or as if with fog.
  - Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
9. To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
10. 13
  To obscure in condensation or water.
  - Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is^([sic]) that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.
11. To make confusing or obscure.
12. 15
  A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
  - The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...
13. 16
  Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
  - […] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]
14. Moss.
15. To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of
  To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
16. To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
17. 20
  To practice in a small or mean way
  To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
  - Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
18. Initialism of fat, oil, and grease.
19. Initialism of frequency of gobbledygook
  Initialism of frequency of gobbledygook: the commonness of long and complicated words in a text, as measured by systems like the Gunning fog index.
20. Initialism of fraudulently-obtained genuine, a type of illicit passport.

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neighborsea smoke
neighbortule fog

Derived

advection fog, antifog, brain fog, chemofog, cog fog, defog, dry fog, electronic fog, fever fog, fibrofog, fogbank, fog bank, fog bell, fogbound, fogbow, fog bow, fog collection, fog collector, fogdom, fog drip, fogfall, fog fluid, fog forest, fogfruit, foggable, fogger, foggish, foggy, foghorn, fog horn, fog juice, foglamp, fog lamp, fog layer, fogless, fog light, foglike, fog line, fog machine, fogman · +33 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fog. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at fog. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at fog

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA