ug

From principal letters in the language's name as expressed in Latin script.

ug

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Uyghur.

From u- (“micro-, 10^-6”) +‎ g (“gram”).

ug

2. (international standards) alternative form of µg

• Regarding the symbol for micrograms (sense 1), see um.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Uyghur terms

• IPA^(key): /ʌɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

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.

• ugg, oug

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.

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

• ugfou
• uggin
• ugsome
• ugsomely
• ugsomeness

• ugly

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

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

• ugg, oug

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.

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

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “ug”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

From Icelandic uggi (“fin”).

ug (plural ugs)

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

• pectoral

• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[3], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 298

• GU, Gu, gu

• og

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuɡ/ [ˈʔuɡ]

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

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

ug (Badlit spelling ᜂᜄ᜔)

1. nonstandard form of og

ug

1. romanization of 𒊌 (ug)

Borrowed from Cebuano ug (“and”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔuɡ/, [ʔuɡ]

ug

1. and

   Synonym: ngan

Borrowed from Irish ag.

• IPA^(key): /ʊɡ/

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.

     [Sing to the moor iris, the sorrel and the ling.]

• 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