Uggn.
/ʌɡ/, U.S. /əɡ/, Australian English /ʌɡ/ Originally Australian.
A type of soft, sheepskin boot.In form Ugg, a proprietary name in the United Kingdom, United States, and European Union.
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1969 Surfing World (Sydney) XII. ii. 25 Grab a kite to Surf Dive 'N' Ski and you'll land the greatest array of gear ever... ‘Ugh’ boots, gas after winter surf.
1972 Canberra Times 22 Apr. 25/7 (advt.) Surfing supplies. O'Neill wet suits in stock; Custom or stock boards from $60; Ugg boots etc.
1972 Official Jrnl. Patents, Trade Marks & Designs (Austral.) 1 June 1870/1 Boots, shoes and slippers... Ugh-boots.
1977 Austral. Women's Weekly 29 June 56/1 In just a few days you'll be stepping out in the smartest Ugg boots this side of Istanbul.
1979 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 15 July 23/1 A leading Brisbane shoe store sold them two pairs of specially made size 14, Australian sheepskin ugg boots.
1980 Telegraph (Brisbane) 25 June (advt.) For all types of ugg boots and moccasins—pure sheepskin.
1986 Woman's Day (Melbourne) 15 Dec. 96/3 You can wash your ug boots in the washing machine with a good wool wash.
1988 Time Off (Brisbane) 29 Apr. 2/4 Let me rephrase that question: if you had two ugh boots and I took one away.
1990 San Francisco Chron. 19 Mar. e1/2 A sun-bleached surf rat with long hair, decked out in hot pink fanny pack and Ugg boots, ambles toward the wetsuit rack.
2006 New Yorker 23 Jan. 66/3 She's wearing Uggs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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