smog

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See also: Smog and smög

English

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Etymology

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

  1. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
    Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog
    • 1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times:
      A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.
    • 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
      Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.

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Verb

smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)

  1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
    If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

See also

References

  • smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

smog m inan

  1. smog

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • smog”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • smog”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

  1. smog

French

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

  1. smog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

Noun

smog m (invariable)

  1. smog

References

  1. ^ smog in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

Noun

smog m inan

  1. smog

Declension

Derived terms

adjective

Further reading

  • smog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • smog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smog.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /izˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʒˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /iʒˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ , /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/, /izˈmɔ.ɡi/

  • Hyphenation: smog

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

  1. smog (urban air pollution)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog n (uncountable)

  1. smog

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative smog smogul
genitive-dative smog smogului
vocative smogule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

Noun

smȍg m (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)

  1. smog

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈmoɡ/ , /ˈsmoɡ/
  • Rhymes: -oɡ
  • Syllabification: smog

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

  1. smog