English Explanatory Dictionary

fog

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
  2. A mist or film clouding a surface.
  3. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
  4. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
  5. Distance fog.
verb
  1. To become covered with or as if with fog.
  2. To become obscured in condensation or water.
  3. To become dim or obscure.
  4. To make dim or obscure.
  5. To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
  6. To cover with or as if with fog.
  7. To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
  8. To obscure in condensation or water.
  9. To make confusing or obscure.
noun
  1. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
  2. Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
  3. Moss.
verb
  1. To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
  2. To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
verb
  1. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
noun
  1. Initialism of fat, oil, and grease.
  2. Initialism of frequency of gobbledygook: the commonness of long and complicated words in a text, as measured by systems like the Gunning fog index.
adj
  1. Initialism of fraudulently-obtained genuine, a type of illicit passport.

Pronunciation

/fɒɡ/ /fɔɡ/ /fɑɡ/ en-us-fog.ogg [fɔ̟ɡ]

Word forms

fog fogs fogging fogged

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”).

Synonyms

haze mist steam daze become cloudy become steamy blur cloud obscure aftergrass aftermath eddish foggage

Derived words

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 fog mull fog of war fog oil fog-pond fogponics fogproof fogscape fog signal fog tsunami ground fog Gunning fog index in a fog knit fog pea-soup fog peasoup fog pea soup fog plait fog prefog radiation fog smog
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