ugh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɯx], [ɯχ], [ʌx], [ʌχ], [ʌɡ], [ʌk], [ʊx], [ʊχ], [ʊk], [ʊ]

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Note: may be nasalized.

Interjection

ugh

1. Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

   Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXI:

     [...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:yuck

Translations

to express disgust

• Arabic: يَع (yaʕ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡心／恶心 (zh) (èxīn), 恶心 (zh) (ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) (pēi), 啐 (zh) (cuì), 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā), 哎 (zh) (āi), 唉 (zh) (ài)

• Czech: fuj (cs)
• Dutch: bah (nl)
• Esperanto: aĉ (eo)
• Finnish: hyh
• French: beurk (fr)
• German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
• Greek: αχ (el) (ach)
• Hebrew: אִיכְס (he) (ikhs), פוּי (he) (fui)
• Ido: uf (io)
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• Italian: che schifo
• Japanese: うっ (u'), わっ (wa'), げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge'), ゲッ (ge'))
• Malay: ee
• Persian: ایش
• Polish: fu (pl)
• Portuguese: agh
• Romanian: câh
• Russian: фу (ru) (fu), тьфу (ru) (tʹfu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) (be), уф (ru) (uf) (for annoyance)
• Spanish: puf (es), guácala (es) (Mexico), fuchi (es) (Mexico), fúchila (Mexico), aj (es)
• Swedish: usch (sv)
• Turkish: ıı
• Welsh: ych (cy)

Anagrams

• Ghu, ghu, hug

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Manx

Interjection

ugh!

1. oh!

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish og, from Proto-Celtic *āuyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u/

Noun

ugh m (genitive singular uigh or uighe, plural uighean)

1. egg

Derived terms

• bonnach-uighe (“omelette”)
• plaosg-uighe (“eggshell”)
• ugh na Càisge (“Easter egg”)
• ughlann (“ovary”)
• uighean pronn (“scrambled eggs”)

 

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ugh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “og”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language