fug

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I don't think anybody can make that bold tartan look fashionable (and every dress I've seen from this event was fug, fug, fug).

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  1. noun A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room: "In spite of the open windows the stench had become a reeking fug” (Colleen McCullough).

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  • Inside the fug was worse, fishermen still in bloody oilskins and boots hunched over fries and cod, swigged from cups with dangling strings. —  The Shipping News
  • “No fug,” he said, then leapt onto a chair and curled up with his speckled gray fluffy tail across his nose. —  PRIESTESS OF THE WHITE
  • There's also a whole lot more of What's-His-Face, but he's not really fug or anything. —  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
  • Current cooling factors include a prolonged solar minimum and ABC (Atmospheric Brown CLud, brown fug which comes all across the Pacfic from Asia). —  RealClimate
  • I don't think anybody can make that bold tartan look fashionable (and every dress I've seen from this event was fug, fug, fug). —  Tom and Lorenzo/Former Project Rungay Blog
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  1. Perhaps alteration of fogo, stench.
 

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