smog

Blend of smoke +‎ fog.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /smɒɡ/

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• (US) enPR: smäg, IPA^(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA^(key): /smɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

2. 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.

• 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

• electronic smog
• smoggy
• vog

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.

• smaze
• dry fog, dry haze, haze

• “smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• MGOs, Goms, GMOs, goms, mogs

• IPA^(key): [ˈsmok]

smog m inan

1. smog

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

Borrowed from English smog.

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smog m (uncountable)

1. smog

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog

Borrowed from English smog.

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

smog m (invariable)

1. smog

Borrowed from English smog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: smog
• Homophones: smok, Smok

smog m inan

1. smog

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

Unadapted borrowing from English smog.

• Hyphenation: smog

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog (urban air pollution)

Borrowed from English smog.

smog n (uncountable)

1. smog

Borrowed from English smog.

• IPA^(key): /smôɡ/

smȍg m (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)

1. smog

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

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog