subs. (old).—Smoke.—GROSE [1785]; G. KENT, Modern Flash Dictionary [1823]; MATSELL [1859]. [Cf., FOGUS.]

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  IN A FOG, subs. phr. (colloquial).—In a condition of perplexity, doubt, difficulty, or mystification: as, ‘I’m quite IN A FOG as to what you mean.’

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  Verb (old).—1.  To smoke.

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  2.  (colloquial).—To mystify; to perplex; to obscure.

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  1836.  W. H. SMITH, The Thieves’ Chaunt.

        There is a nook in the boozing ken,
  Where many a mug I FOG.

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  1883.  Punch, ‘Doubtful,’ May, p. 210, col. 1.

          That so large a picture,
Treated so ideally—
  Not that that means stricture—
FOGS us to find room for it.

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  1883.  Daily Telegraph, 29 Sept. We turns what we say into tangle talk so as to FOG them.

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