sug
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?'
- 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women (page 124)
Anagrams
- GSU, Gus, ugs
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sœχ/
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
- sugu
Etymology 1
From Latin sūgō. Compare Romanian suge, sug.
Verb
sug (past participle suptã)
- I suck.
Related terms
- sudziri / sudzire, sudzeari / sudzeare
- suptu
- supshu
Etymology 2
From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Romanian soc.
Noun
sug m
- elder, elderberry tree
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) su'g
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *suku. Cognates include Finnish suku.
Noun
sug
- kind
- sort
- gender
- relative
Declension
| singular (ikšlug) | plural (pǟgiņlug) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīv) | sug | sugūd |
| genitive (genitīv) | sug | sugūd |
| partitive (partitīv) | suggõ | sugīdi |
| dative (datīv) | suggõn | sugūdõn |
| instrumental (instrumentāl) | sugkõks | sugūdõks |
| illative (illatīv) | suggõ | sugži |
| inessive (inesīv) | sugsõ sugs | sugši |
| elative (elatīv) | sugstõ sugst | sugšti |
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
sug
- imperative of suge
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [suɡ]
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
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʉːɡ
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga.
Tausug
Etymology
From earlier suluk. Compare Cebuano sulog, Malay suluk.
Noun
sug
- the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, water current.
Volapük
Noun
sug (nominative plural sugs)
- suction
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sug | sugs |
| genitive | suga | sugas |
| dative | suge | suges |
| accusative | sugi | sugis |
| vocative 1 | o sug! | o sugs! |
| predicative 2 | sugu | sugus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only