fog

CEFRA2

/fɒɡ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A thick cloud near the ground that makes seeing difficult.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A mist or film clouding a surface.

Examples

  • The airport was closed because of the fog.

  • There was a thick fog around.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

  2. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

  3. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

More examples

In context

  • He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.

  • The mirror fogged every time he showered.

  • a bank of fog

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).