fogdog
\FOG-dawg\
noun
1. a bright spot sometimes seen in a fog bank.
Quotes
She listened for the flute again, thought to pull toward it, toward the big fogdog near the south cove, then work her way along the shore to the Hammond dock; go home, take a shower, maybe hunt for raspberries with Ian, make a pie.
-- Lynn Stegner, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, 2000
Origin
Fogdog arose in the mid-1800s as a combination of fog and sundog, which refers to a bright circular spot on a solar halo or an incomplete rainbow.
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