sug

See also: súg and sūg

English

Etymology 1

From the initial letters of selling under the guise of research.

Verb

sug (third-person singular simple present sug, present participle g, simple past and past participle ed)

1. (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

sug (plural not attested)

1. (informal) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
   • 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women (page 124)

     “Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”

   • 2013, James Oseland, ‎Giles Coren, ‎Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road

     She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'

Anagrams

• GSU, Gus, ugs

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœχ/

Etymology 1

From Dutch zuchten, from Middle Dutch suchten, from Old Dutch *sūfton.

Verb

sug (present sug, present participle sugtende, past participle gesug)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to sigh

Etymology 2

From Dutch zucht, from Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *suf- (“to sip”).

Noun

sug (plural sugte, diminutive suggie)

1. A sigh.

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sugu

Etymology 1

From Latin sūgō. Compare Romanian suge, sug.

Verb

sug (past participle suptã)

1. I suck.

Related terms

• sudziri / sudzire, sudzeari / sudzeare
• suptu
• supshu

Etymology 2

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Romanian soc.

Noun

sug m

1. elder, elderberry tree

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) su'g

Etymology

Related to Finnish suku.

Noun

sug

1. kind
2. sort
3. gender
4. relative

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sug

1. imperative of suge

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sug

1. imperative of suga

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [suɡ]

Verb

sug

1. inflection of suge:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

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Somali

Verb

sug

1. to wait

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

sug

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of suga.

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Volapük

Noun

sug (nominative plural sugs)

1. suction

Declension

declension of sug

	singular	plural
nominative	sug	sugs
genitive	suga	sugas
dative	suge	suges
accusative	sugi	sugis
vocative 1	o sug!	o sugs!
predicative 2	sugu	sugus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only