[f. FOG v.2 + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. in various senses.
1854. Jrnl. Photogr. Soc., 21 Jan., 163/2. Another secondary cause of ‘fogging’ (and which was for some time a great plague to myself before I found it out) is the diffused light reflected from the top, bottom and sides of the camera.
1878. Besant & Rice, Celia’s Arb., vii. (1887), 56. Owing to some strange fogging of his enthusiastic brain, he could do nothing at all in the way in which it ought to have been done.
1883. William Sharp, Dust and Fog, in Good Words, XXIV. Nov., 722/1. Mr. Aitken’s experiments in dust are carried out to prove that without dust ‘fogging’ is impossible, and that it is only necessary to purify the air from the one to have nothing of the other: indeed fog is but another form of atmospheric dust.
1889. Acworth, Railways Eng., vii. 320. Again, ‘fogging’ is never resorted to merely to protect goods trains.
2. Theatr. (see quot.).
1889. Barrère & Leland, Slang Dict., Fogging, getting through one’s part anyhow, like a man lost in a fog.
