ug

See also: UG, Ug, and .ug

Translingual

Symbol

ug

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Uyghur.
(typography) (metrology) Symbol for microgram, an SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁶ grams. Alternative form of µg
Synonyms: mcg, µg

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌɡ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌɡ

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.

Alternative forms

ugg, oug

Noun

ug (countable and uncountable, plural ugs)

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

Synonyms

(fear; horror): dread, fright; see also Thesaurus:fear
(digust): distaste, loathsomeness, revulsion
(object of disgust): abomination
(vomit): chunder, sick; see also Thesaurus:vomit
(surfeit): glut, surplus; see also Thesaurus:excess

Derived terms

ugfou
uggin
ugsome
ugsomely
ugsomeness

Related terms

ugly

References

Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

ugg, oug

Verb

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

(Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To dread, loathe or disgust.
- 1822, Wilson, Robert, “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!
(Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To fear, be horrified; shudder with horror.
(Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) To vomit.
(Northumbria, obsolete) To give a surfeit to.

Synonyms

(feel abhorrence): abhor, loathe; see also Thesaurus:hate. Alternatively: nauseate, sicken.
(vomit): heave, pray to the porcelain god, throw up; see also Thesaurus:regurgitate

References

William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “ug”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume V (Simular–Z), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

Etymology 3

Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.

Symbol

ug

Alternative spelling of µg

Etymology 4

The ugs (circled) of a koi carp.

From Icelandic uggi (“fin”).

Noun

ug (plural ugs)

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

Synonyms

pectoral

References

Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

Anagrams

GU, Gu, gu

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Akin to Maranao ago.

Conjunction

ug

and

Article

ug

Nonstandard form of og.

Sumerian

Romanization

ug

Romanization of 𒊌 (ug)

Waray-Waray

Conjunction

ug

and

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish ag

Preposition

ug

for, at
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1:
  Zing ug a mor fane a zour a ling.
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References

Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 108