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smog

noun
/smɒɡ/UK/smɑɡ/US

Etymology

Blend of smoke + fog.

  1. derived from *pug-✻ — “billow, bulge, drift”
  2. derived from *feukaną✻ — “to whisk, blow”
  3. borrowed from fog — “spray, shower, drift, storm”
  4. compounded as smog — “smoke + fog”

Definitions

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

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

  2. To get a smog check

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smog. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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