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UG
Proper noun
Ug
(humorous) Popular supposed name for a caveman or other prehistoric man.
Anagrams
• GU, gu
Etymology 1
Noun
ug (plural ugs)
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) A feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) An object of disgust.
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) Vomited matter.
(Northumbria) A surfeit.
Synonyms
• (fear; horror): dread, fright; see also fear
• (digust): distaste, loathsomeness, revulsion
• (object of disgust): abomination
• (vomit): chunder, sick; see also vomit
• (surfeit): glut, surplus; see also excess
Etymology 2
Verb
ug (third-person singular simple present ugs, present participle ugging, simple past and past participle ugged)
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) To dread, loathe or disgust.
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) To fear, be horrified; shudder with horror.
(North England and Scotland, obsolete) To vomit.
(Northumbria, obsolete) To give a surfeit to.
Synonyms
• (feel abhorrence): abhor, loathe; see also hate. Alternatively: nauseate, sicken.
• (vomit): heave, pray to the porcelain god, throw up; see also regurgitate
Etymology 3
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
Symbol
ug
Alternative spelling of µg
Etymology 4
Noun
ug (plural ugs)
(Caithness, Scotland) The pectoral fin of a fish.
Synonyms
• pectoral
Anagrams
• GU, gu
Noun
UG (countable and uncountable, plural UGs)
Initialism of universal grammar.
Initialism of undergraduate.
Anagrams
• GU, gu
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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