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Definition fog
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin, from 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 *feukan? (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”). Related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Noun
fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), Norwegian fogg.
Noun
fog (uncountable)
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (Britain, dialectal) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
- (Scotland) Moss.
Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
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