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English
Etymology 1
From the initial letters of selling under the guise of research, especially in the market industry.
Verb
sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)
- (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
sug (plural not attested)
- (informal) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women, page 124:“Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”
2013, James Oseland, Giles Coren, Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road:She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch zuchten, from Middle Dutch suchten, from Old Dutch *sūfton.
Verb
sug (present sug, present participle sugtende, past participle gesug)
- (intransitive, transitive) to sigh
Etymology 2
From Dutch zucht, from Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *suf- (“to sip”).
Noun
sug (plural sugte, diminutive suggie)
- a sigh
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Latin sūgō. Compare Romanian suge, sug.
Verb
sug first-singular present indicative (past participle suptã)
- to suck
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Romanian soc.
Noun
sug m
- elder, elderberry tree
Livonian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *suku. Cognates include Finnish suku.
Noun
sug
- kind
- sort
- gender
- relative
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
sug
- imperative of suge
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
sug
- inflection of suge:
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- third-person plural present indicative
Somali
Verb
sug
- to wait
Sumerian
Romanization
sug
- Romanization of 𒆹 (sug)
Swedish
Etymology
Deverbal from suga (“suck”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sug n
- suction, sucking, "suck"
- (figuratively) craving
Produkten dämpar röksuget- The product reduces smoking cravings
- (figuratively) demand
Det har varit ett enormt sug efter vår nya kebabsås- There has been a huge demand ("suck") for our new kebab sauce
- Synonym: efterfrågan
- (figuratively) attraction
ha sug i blicken- have a gaze that draws your attention (often in a romantic or flirtatious sense), "have suck in one's gaze"
Declension
Declension of sug
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Nominative
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Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
sug c
- (usually in compounds) a device that sucks something
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga
References
Volapük
Noun
sug (nominative plural sugs)
- suction
Declension
declension of sug
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only