"fever fog" meaning in English

See fever fog in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fever fogs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fever fog (plural fever fogs)
  1. Any mist rising from swampy ground, formerly believed to cause fever; a miasma.
    Sense id: en-fever_fog-en-noun-41UAJxta Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fever fogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fever fog (plural fever fogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any mist rising from swampy ground, formerly believed to cause fever; a miasma."
      ],
      "id": "en-fever_fog-en-noun-41UAJxta",
      "links": [
        [
          "mist",
          "mist"
        ],
        [
          "swampy",
          "swampy"
        ],
        [
          "fever",
          "fever"
        ],
        [
          "miasma",
          "miasma"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fever fog"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fever fogs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fever fog (plural fever fogs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any mist rising from swampy ground, formerly believed to cause fever; a miasma."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mist",
          "mist"
        ],
        [
          "swampy",
          "swampy"
        ],
        [
          "fever",
          "fever"
        ],
        [
          "miasma",
          "miasma"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fever fog"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fever fog meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (ce0be54 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.