10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUGGY»
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fuggy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fuggy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ship that Never was: A Story of U.S. Armed Guard and the ...
Then I heard water coming through the bulkhead from the compartment ahead of
ours, not very much water but enough that I knew something bad had happened,
and the compartment from which the water came was where Fuggy was ...
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How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a ...
'me first' in children's games (Scotland and the North-East) Fuggy, used in many
a children's game to declare 'I'm first', is one of those terms, like the games
themselves, that are far older than our modern world. And while the spelling may
have ...
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The Babe, B.A.: Being the Uneventful History of a Young ...
Fuggy brute." " About my being a brute," said the Babe, " there may be two
opinions. But fuggy, as you call it, I am. I confess it, and I glory in it. At the same
time I 'm no fuggier than you. If you had your way you would go a nasty walk in
order to ...
Edward Frederic Benson, 1897
happy ones. Fuggy, the head scientist approaches and puts his arms around
Zoggy and quietly whispers, “It's best you come with me." He takes him into the
big telescope room and closes the door. In a shaky voice he tells Zoggy to sit
down.
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Dictionary of Confusable Words
To scowl is to make the same gesture but in a threatening, angry or sullen
manner: 'When I sent the youth away, he scowled and muttered something under
his breath.' frowzy see fuggy fruit/fruition In a figurative sense, fruit (or fruits)
relates to ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
fuggy. adjective a fuggy little room: stuffy, smoky, close, muggy, stale, fusty,
unventilated, airless, suffocating, stifling, oppressive; heavy. wANTONYMS airy.
fugitive. noun he is a hunted fugitive: escapee, escaper, runaway, deserter,
refugee, ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See fug, n., 1. fugel. See fugle. fugger. A waste-paper basket: Tonbridge: late C.
19—20. (Marples) Smell, musty. fuggy, n A hot roll: schoolboys': from ca. 1860. (H
., 3rd ed.)?etym. fuggy, adj. Stuffy: orig. (—1888) schoolboys'; from ca. 1910, coll.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Marples. Smell, musty. fuggy . A hot roll: schoolboys': from ca 1860. ?etymology.
fuggy , adj. Stuffy: orig. (–1888) schoolboys'; from ca 1910, coll. Perhaps a direct
adoption of Scottish fuggy, foggy. fugle , see FUGEL. fugo . The rectum: C.17–18:
...
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Contributions to Punch etc.; Book of snobs; A little dinner ...
FUGGY. THOSE who know Topham Sawyer, the accomplished young Earl of
Swellmore, are aware that under a mask of languor and levity he hides
considerable powers of acuteness and observation. His letters are much prized,
not only ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1904
23 Peace for Ireland, 121 Pick of the Exhibition (The), 134 Pius's Fictions, 123
Police Extraordinary, 257 Policcman'a Home (The), 230 Political Philharmonics,
125 Political Reflections, 227 Poor Fuggy 1 167 Pope all Smoke (The), 117 Pope
...
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1851
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUGGY»
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fuggy is used in the context of the following news items.
Sunday Food: Clotted Cream
'fuggy-hole'), or souterrains, found across Atlantic Britain, France and Ireland as a possible form of 'cold store' for dairy production of milk, ... «Firedoglake, Jun 15»
Kathryn Williams: 'Sylvia was a big shadow over my writing'
The Bell Jar tells the story of young, Boston-born Esther Greenwood, whose life bears close, fuggy parallels to Plath's own. She interns at a ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Guilty pleasure TV - we love it
Through your fuggy haze it feels as if you have happened upon the Rosetta Stone, only more important. 4) A & E ob-docs. We can't get enough ... «The Knowledge, Jun 15»
12 Citizens
The whole story takes place in a closed, fuggy room. It all depends on the dialogue. I think only theater actors can pull this off. I hope there will ... «Global Times, May 15»
The new Weetabix on the Go advert
The second stage comes as you snap out of that fuggy stupor and hop around the bedroom throwing clothes on to various limbs. The third ... «The Guardian, May 15»
What's on offer in Marseilles
Air travel is all well and good, but those poky Plexiglas windows and fuggy cabins don't allow for any appreciation of the gloriousness of the ... «The Sunday Times, May 15»
A City Full Of Contradictions, And A Trilogy To Match In 'Nocturne'
Reading Nocturne, you can practically feel and smell the air, humid and fuggy with inharmonious odors. With its effusive, occasionally cloying ... «NPR, Apr 15»
Why You Should Visit Copenhagen
For an ungoverned area that was pretty fuggy with pot, it still had an orderliness about it, exemplified by the 'No Running' signs. Actually, the ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
Arthur & George: opening the casebook of Arthur Conan Doyle
In the fuggy top deck of the unit bus, I sit down with Arsher Ali, the 30-year-old actor who plays George Edalji. His character makes an unusual ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Catch Me Daddy, film review: Wolfe brothers' tense debut cuts …
... her white Scottish boyfriend Aaron, who have run away and cocooned themselves in a static caravan fuggy with dope smoke and pop music. «The Independent, Feb 15»
