hugger

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English hug

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English hugger

From hug + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)

Noun

hugger (plural huggers)

1. One who hugs or embraces.
   • 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16:

     When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.

   • 2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28:

     Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.

2. A ceiling fan whose blades are close to the ceiling.

Derived terms

• bunny hugger
• dolphin hugger
• hip-hugger
• hiphugger
• hiphuggers
• hugger-mugger
• Jesus hugger
• left lane hugger
• nuthugger, nuthuggers
• panda hugger
• right lane hugger
• tree hugger

Verb

hugger (third-person singular simple present huggers, present participle huggering, simple past and past participle huggered)

1. (obsolete) To conceal; to lurk in ambush.
   • 1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

     Such a one they saw there lyrkinge and huggeringe two houres before.

References

• “hugger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology

hugge +‎ -er. From Old Danish huggeræ.

Noun

hugger c (singular definite huggeren, plural indefinite huggere)

1. (obsolete, only in compounds) a cutter, chopper (person (or tool))

Declension

Declension of hugger

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hugger	huggeren	huggere	huggerne
genitive	huggers	huggerens	huggeres	huggernes

Derived terms

• stenhugger
• skovhugger
• spækhugger

Verb

hugger

1. present of hugge

References

• “hugger” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hugger” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hugger

1. present of hugge

Swedish

Verb

hugger

1. present indicative of hugga