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See also: UG, Ug, and .ug

Translingual

Symbol

ug

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Uyghur.
  2. (international standards) Alternative form of µg

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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.

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Noun

ug (countable and uncountable, plural ugs)

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

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

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Verb

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

  1. (Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To dread, loathe or disgust.
    • 1822, Robert Wilson, “Answer to an Epistle from a Friend”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 71:
      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!
  2. (Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To fear, be horrified; shudder with horror.
  3. (Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To vomit.
  4. (Northumbria, obsolete) To give a surfeit to.
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Etymology 3

The ugs (circled) of a koi carp.

From Icelandic uggi (fin).

Noun

ug (plural ugs)

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

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Standardized form of ug as a conjunctive, see og. Akin to Hiligaynon kag, Maranao ago.

Conjunction

ug (Badlit spelling ᜂᜄ᜔)

  1. and
    ikaw ug siya
    you and him/her
    punita ug ilabay
    pick it up and throw it away
  2. or (having two things considered)
    Synonym: o
    pritohon ug tulahon, pariha ra nako
    deep fried or stewed, it's all the same to me

Etymology 2

Article

ug (Badlit spelling ᜂᜄ᜔)

  1. Nonstandard form of og.

Sumerian

Romanization

ug

  1. Romanization of 𒊌 (ug)

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano ug (and).

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Conjunction

ug

  1. and
    Synonym: ngan

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish ag.

Pronunciation

Preposition

ug

  1. to
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 108:
      Zing ug a mor fane a zour a ling.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108