fog

a bank of fog

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

Wallis and Curtiz eventually agreed to shoot Howard Koch’s preferred ending, with distraught Ilse^([sic]), still in love with Rick, going off with Laszlo to America, and Rick and Louis going off together into the fog. (In Morocco? Fog? Never mind.)

2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

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

I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

en-noun

fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)

анаҟәа

cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision

zamlžení

be in a fog — быть как в тумане (bytʹ kak v tumane)

воа́л

photography: blur on a developed photographic image

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”).


fog

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

The mirror fogged every time he showered.

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

(intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.

(transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.

(transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.

1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, page 7:

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is^([sic]) that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan.

2008, United States Congress, House Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity - Foreclosure, Foreclosure Prevention and Intervention: The Importance of Loss Mitigation, page 46:

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

en-verb

fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)

fogs (present singular third-person)
fogging (participle present)
fogged (participle past)
fogged (past)

замъглявам се

to become covered with or as if with fog

замъглявам се

to become obscured in condensation or water


fog

The inclosures of fog, or aftergrass, reserved for spring-feed, are now supposed to be shut up, also the burnet, which is never to be fed in autumn ...

1800, John Lawrenece, The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for All Kinds of Country Business: Comprehending All the Material Improvements in the New Husbandry ... By a Farmer and Breeder [i.e. J. Lawrence]., page 114:

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

[…] and they generally leave a great deal of Fog to rot on the Ground, which, with the Help of his well turned Dung-hill, dress his Ground […]

1744, William Agric Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, page 104:

(UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

guaime

tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season

From Middle English fogge (“tall grass”), probably from Norwegian fogg (“tall, worthless grass”); compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”).


fog

(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.


fog

Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Counter Scuffle”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:

(intransitive, obsolete) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.