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▪ I. ugh, int. and n.
(ʊh, ʌh, ɜːh, ʊx, etc.)
[Imitative.]
1. A representation of an inarticulate sound of the nature of a hollow cough; a sound or utterance of this nature.
1765Foote Commissary i. (1782) 12 Ugh, ugh, ugh—[coughs]. 1822Scott Nigel xxiii, The usurer..concluded his speech with a dry ‘ugh, ugh’. 1859Thackeray Virgin. li, The next moment,..with an ugh, the Indian fell over my chest dead. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes (1888) 70 My address was frequently interrupted by what Fenimore Cooper calls ‘expressive ughs’.
2. An interjection expressive of disgust.
1837Howitt Rur. Life ii. v. (1862) 140 The overhanging banks of the most transparent streams—ugh! they are now the very lurking-places of danger! 1855Browning Childe Roland xxi, It may have been a water-rat I speared, But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek. 1878Dale Lect. Preach. viii. 242 Physic..all the year round;..ugh!—it is intolerable.
▪ II. ugh(e
obs. forms of yew. |