smog

See also: Smog and smög

English

Etymology

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /smɒɡ/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) enPR: smäg, IPA(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA(key): /smɔɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

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[2]:
      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.

Hyponyms

  • black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
  • photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
  • summer smog

Derived terms

Translations

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[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsmok]

Noun

smog m inan

  1. smog

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

  1. smog

French

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

  1. smog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzmɔɡ/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɡ
  • Hyphenation: smòg

Noun

smog m (invariable)

  1. smog

References

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsmɔk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: smog
  • Homophones: smok, Smok

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

  • Hyphenation: smog

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

  1. smog (urban air pollution)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog n (uncountable)

  1. smog

Declension

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smôɡ/

Noun

smȍg m inan (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)

  1. smog

Declension

Declension of smog
singular plural
nominative smog smogovi
genitive smoga smogova
dative smogu smogovima
accusative smog smogove
vocative smogu / smože smogove
locative smogu smogovima
instrumental smogom smogovima

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈmoɡ/ [ezˈmoɣ̞], /ˈsmoɡ/ [ˈzmoɣ̞]
  • Rhymes: -oɡ
  • Syllabification: smog

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

  1. smog