fog

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A genuine London fog seems not like the heavy gray mist which we know as a fog, but, as Dickens says, like "palpable brown air."

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  1. noun Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.
  2. noun An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.
  3. noun A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.
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  • In the distance against the fog was another queer light. —  053 - He Could Stop the World
  • The presence of the fog was a fortunate circumstance. —  016 - The King Maker
  • ;A few years back I ;d have twisted ;em like a watch spring, but why bother now On Saturday the fog was as dense as cotton waste, carried a coldness that ate into the bones. —  The Shipping News
  • By the time they had reached Barilad's, the fog was at their waists. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • Creamer was held up at the sixth tee, where the fog was at its thickest on the Ocean Course at Half Moon Bay Golf Links. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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mist ·  haze ·  smoke ·  rain ·  vapor ·  darkness ·  twilight ·  snow ·  chill ·  blackness ·  sunlight ·  breeze

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fog:   fogged
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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Middle English fogge, tall grass; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Danish fog, spray, shower, drift, storm, in comp. sne-fog, a snow-storm, blinding fall of snow, = Icelandic fok, spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, a snow-drift; cf. fjūk, a snowstorm, from fjūka (preterit fauk, past participle fokinn), be driven on, be tossed by the wind (of spray, snow, dust, etc.), = Swedish fyka (Cleasby) = Danish fyge, drift, colloq. rush, dial. fuge, rain fine and blow.
  2. from fog, n.
  3. English dial. also feg; from Middle English fogge, grass (see extract); perhaps of Celtic origin, Welsh ffwg, dry grass.
  4. Developed from fogger, q. v.
  5. English dial., formerly also foggy; origin obscure; cf. faggy.
 

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