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ug

/ʌɡ/

ug noun: a feeling of fear, horror or disgust.

ug: a feeling of fear, horror or disgust
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Noun (1)

ug (countable and uncountable, plural ugs)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
    • He took an ug at's meht.
    Synonyms:
    dread
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) An object of disgust.
    • What an ug ye've myed yorsel.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) Vomited matter.
    Synonyms:
    chunder
  4. (Northumbria) A surfeit.
    Synonyms:
    glut

Verb

ug (third-person singular simple present ugs, present participle ugging, simple past and past participle ugged)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To dread, loathe or disgust.
    • Wha weds a cankert thriftless wife, / Weds to his days eternal strife, / For, like the Tron-Kirk bell, / She ever hammers on his lugs, / Till her an' hame at last he uggs / As the dire door o' hell!1822, Robert Wilson, “Answer to an Epistle from a Friend”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 71
    Synonyms:
    abhor
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To fear, be horrified; shudder with horror.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To vomit.
    Synonyms:
    heave
  4. (Northumbria, obsolete) To give a surfeit to.

Noun (2)

ug (plural ugs)

  1. (Caithness, Scotland) The pectoral fin of a fish.
    Synonyms:
    pectoral

Noun (3)

ug

  1. (Internet, attributive, often) Underground; specifically referring to the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community) or content that is intentionally harmful, lethal, or intended to bypass platform filters.
    • That creator is strictly ug; they have "respawn" affirmations in all their tracks.

Adjective

ug (not comparable)

  1. (Internet) Belonging to or characteristic of the underground subliminal community.

Noun (4) capitalized: UG

UG (countable and uncountable, plural UGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of universal grammar.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of undergraduate.

Proper noun capitalized: Ug

Ug

  1. (humorous) Popular supposed name for a caveman or other prehistoric man.

Synonyms of ug

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Forms of ug

Noun
pluralugs
alternative formugg
alternative formoug
pluralUGs
Verb
third-person singular presentugs
present participleugging
past participleugged
pastugged

Origin of ug

From Middle English ugge, from Old Norse uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”), related to Old Norse ógn (“terror, threat, dispute”) and agi (“terror, strife, fear, punishment”). More at awe.

From Middle English uggen, from Old Norse ugga (“to fear”), see above.

From Icelandic uggi (“fin”).

Words formed from ug

Words that rhyme with ug

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Questions about ug

What does ug mean?
Ug means a feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
What part of speech is ug?
Ug can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ug?
Ug is pronounced /ʌɡ/.
What is the plural of ug?
The plural of ug is ugs.

Words near ug in the dictionary

  1. ufufunyana
  2. ufufunyane
  3. ufufuyane
  4. UFW
  5. UFWD
  6. ug
  7. UGA
  8. Ugadi
  9. ugal
  10. Ugalde
  11. Ugaldes

Source and license

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