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wugim

/wʌɡˈim/

wugim is the plural of wug.

Meaning of wug

Noun (1)

wug (plural wugs (see usage notes))

  1. An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.

Noun (2)

wug (plural wugs)

  1. In folk taxonomy, a creature with worm or insect features; colloquially, a bug or creepy-crawly.

Origin of wugim

From wug + -im.

Questions about wugim

What is wugim the plural of?
Wugim is the plural of wug.
How do you pronounce wugim?
Wugim is pronounced /wʌɡˈim/.

Words near wugim in the dictionary

  1. wug word
  2. wug words
  3. Wugang
  4. Wuggers
  5. Wuggins
  6. wugim
  7. Wugong
  8. wugs
  9. Wugu
  10. wuh
  11. wuh luh wuh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wugim (page history and authors); wug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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