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"ref": "1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 4",
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"ref": "2004 November 8, John Derbyshire, “Boxing Day”, in National Review",
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"ref": "2011, Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2",
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"ref": "2015, Kate Riordan, The Girl in the Photograph",
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"ref": "2002, Chris Beckett, “Marcher”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection",
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"ref": "2006, Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races",
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"ref": "2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, page 7",
"text": "But now am in total fug about what to text Roxster about tonight, and whether I should tell him about the nits.",
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"ref": "2014, Robert Anthony Welch, The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History",
"text": "Her translations are dimmed over with a fug of late eighteenthcentury poetic diction, a striving for sublimity or for sentimental effect.",
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"ref": "2011, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up!: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort Of., pages 34–35",
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"text": "Oh fug. Whad a mess.",
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"text": "He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this.",
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"ref": "1969, Seymour Blicker -, Blues Chased a Rabbit, page 62",
"text": "Scornfully the driver answered, \"Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah.\"",
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"ref": "2005, Joe Taylor, The World's Thinnest Fat Man: Stories, page 82",
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"ref": "2007, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull: Stories, page 51",
"text": "Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered?",
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"ref": "2010, Julian Barnes, Metroland, page 39",
"text": "You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.",
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"ref": "2013, J. Michael Shell, The Apprentice Journals, page 7",
"text": "Tell them every detail, so they can find an Apprentice again, because if they don't, they're fugged.”",
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"ref": "2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, page 33",
"text": "He did an imitation of Big Jerry in full-choke cantankerousness: “'You'll just fug it up.'",
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"ref": "2014, Richie Unterberger, Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers",
"text": "All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.'",
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"ref": "2016, Julian Barnes, Metroland, page 10",
"text": "Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.",
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"ref": "1961, Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, page 21",
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"text": "How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?",
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"text": "I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.",
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"ref": "2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill",
"text": "After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.”",
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{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Anne Lazurko, Dollybird",
"text": "I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill",
"text": "After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Euphemistic form of fuck.",
"Something of little value."
],
"links": [
[
"fuck",
"fuck#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1942, Army and Navy Journal - Volume 80, Issues 1-26, page 345",
"text": "Look at those fugs!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Elizabeth George, The Edge of Nowhere",
"text": "'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner . . .'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Euphemistic form of fuck.",
"A contemptible person."
],
"links": [
[
"fuck",
"fuck#English"
],
[
"contemptible",
"contemptible"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fʌɡ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɡ"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "fug"
}
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