Fugged
Hokay, so, because I'm a complete and total dork, and because this has been bugging me, off and on for months now, I want to clear something up. Please, hold your hands up to your faces so that I can't see how hard you're laughing at the ridiculousness of me.
Remember the most obvious typo in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Something like, "His breath fugged the glass of the window"?
For a long time, such a glaring typo bothered me. I read the new Terry Pratchett book recently (Going Postal) and it was in there too. Turns out, it's an actual word. Or, "fug" is, anyway. Means: "A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room: “In spite of the open windows the stench had become a reeking fug”"
According to Webster, I guess she didn't use it quite properly, but there you go. I've only seen it in books by british authors, so maybe it's kind of... slangy. Who knows.
So... I know that I might be the only one book-nerdish enough to worry about this for this long, but there it is. Please return to your regularly scheduled mocking... now.
Remember the most obvious typo in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Something like, "His breath fugged the glass of the window"?
For a long time, such a glaring typo bothered me. I read the new Terry Pratchett book recently (Going Postal) and it was in there too. Turns out, it's an actual word. Or, "fug" is, anyway. Means: "A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room: “In spite of the open windows the stench had become a reeking fug”"
According to Webster, I guess she didn't use it quite properly, but there you go. I've only seen it in books by british authors, so maybe it's kind of... slangy. Who knows.
So... I know that I might be the only one book-nerdish enough to worry about this for this long, but there it is. Please return to your regularly scheduled mocking... now.