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fog n For combs. in sense 2: OED ~ sb2 6 b ~ gun (n.d.);
EDD ~ v 'to eat heartily', 3 ~ meal 'a hearty meal' Ir, JOYCE 257.
1 Commercially-produced food, esp bread, as opposed to home-made
product; BAKER'S FOG.
P 130-67 Get two loaves of fog. 1971
NOSEWORTHY 202 ~ Bread which is bought in a store. Often soft.
2
Comb fog-bird: sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus), or greater shear-water
(P. gravis);
HAGDOWN.
1908 DURGIN 25
On every berg and piece of pan ice were perched groups of curious birds, called by the
natives [hagdowns] or fog-birds, and countless numbers flew about the ship uttering
strange cries.
fog-gun: fire-arm or cannon discharged as a
warning-signal to vessels in foggy weather.
[1794] 1968 THOMAS 45
Our Ship was enveloped in one of those fogs which eternally hover over the Banks. Fog
guns were constantly fir'd, and a horn continually kept sounding to warn other Vessels of
our situation. 1820 Waterford Mirror [Ireland] 26 Jan ... was in the act of
loading a Gun, that he had just discharged, as a fog-gun, at the Battery at Fort Amherst.
1839 PRESCOTT 147 "The Fog-gun": Again! again the welcome sound, / Nearer and nearer
still! / It cometh from their native ground, / The steep and well-known hill / Frowns
through the evening's darkening glooms / As once again the Fog-gun booms.
fog-loom: distorted appearance of an object in foggy
weather.
1861 DE BOILIEU 164 One of the most remarkable phenomena
of the coast is the mirage, or fog-loom, when objects take monstrous sizes, and when mere
cockboats expand to three-deckers!
fog man: supposed
supernatural creator of fog.
T 453/4-67 Some people used to call
it the fog man, but as far as I know there's no fog man... The feller [who] makes the fog
makes the sunshine.
fog-meal: a big meal; SCOFF.
C 75-19 ~ A term which means the same as a big meal. 1978
Evening Telegram 20 May, p. 14 Poor Jack was gettin' ready to have a fog meal, he
opened the tin of Armour's [beans] and then went to pour out a cup of tea.
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