What the Fug?

Mangoandy

Here is a fun one:
While I was touring the home of C.S. Lewis this summer in Oxford, England, the young woman leading the tour led us into the front sitting/living room of The Kilns. She mentioned to our small group that the color of the walls and window coverings were preserved to match what they would look like when the Lewis brothers occupied the house. The dull yellow walls and curtains were not a "color" but rather the result of  "Jack" and "Warnie" creating a regular fug of pipe tobacco smoke and whiskey. What I'd give to have a sitting room to create a regular fug. 

What are your fug ingredients? Tonight mine are Frog Morton on the Bayou and Four Roses bourbon.

Londy3

I just acquired some Four Roses but I will only drink the single barrel. It's not bad either. I prefer more oak but it's fairly smooth. 

For me, my fug will have to be outside my new ManSpace. Unless there is an effective way to quietly ventiate however the Mrs will surely frown this activity inside our new home.

PappyJoe

Fug? 

AnantaAndroscoggin

fug |fəg|
noun [ in sing. ] Brit. informal
a warm, stuffy, or smoky atmosphere in a room: the cozy fug of the music halls.
DERIVATIVES
fuggy adjective
ORIGIN late 19th cent. (originally dialect and schoolchildren's slang): of unknown origin.

motie2

@AnantaAndroscoggin
Well done!!! I enjoy learning new terms. Thanks.

rumrum4me

And here I thought fug was just plural for fog....

PappyJoe

@AnantaAndroscoggin
"fug |fəg|
noun [ in sing. ] Brit. informal"

That explains it to me. It's informal British from the late 19th century, no wonder I don't know that one.

I thought it was a derivative of "fugly" as in "That is one fugly... dog.

Mangoandy

Here's a few uses in relation to the life of C.S. Lewis:
"...The picture is complicated by Lewis's personal life having itself entered into myth. For a long time, his relationship with Tolkien – an intense friendship that played a large part in his conversion to Christianity – attracted fascination, alongside stories of their literary group the Inklings meeting, in a fug of tobacco and warm beer, in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford."
Source Here

Mangoandy

I talked my wife into taking a picture of me in Lewis's sitting room...trying to replicate the fug.
Yes, that was Three Nuns in my bent Peterson (I don't travel internationally with the Dunhills). 

buflosab

Just to add to the conversation, the word fug was also used in the book The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer, about soldiers in the Pacific published in 1948.Of course the word was a substitute for a sexual act and or voicing soldiers frustration in a time of war. The censorship was pretty strict in that time, fugging was also another variation on the word.