uv

See also: UV, uV, ûv, and -ův

English

Preposition

uv

1. (sometimes leetspeak) Eye dialect spelling of of.
   • 1997 October 17, Peter Margasak, “Return of the Turntable/ Reich and Wrong”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     That gives them an advantage over their better-known peers, the Invisible Scratch Pickles: on the recent single "Invisbl Skratch Piklz vs. da Klamz uv Deth" the San Franciscans can spin heads with their superathletic scratching, but the side-length cut doesn't hold up as a piece of music.

   • 2003 January 10, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     On the scale of linguistic complexity, basic leet is about on a par with pig Latin, and with five minutes' practice just about anyone can crank out elegant prose such as: y c@N' p30p13 R3kO9nIZ3 eh 834UTy uv 1337???

Anagrams

• VU, Vu

Lutuv

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔuy

Noun

uv

1. dog

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Modern Swedish uf (“eagle owl”), from Old Swedish ūver, from Old Norse úfr, from Proto-Germanic *ūfaz, *ūfōn (compare Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-. Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʉːv/
• Rhymes: -ʉːv

Noun

uv c

1. owl, usually Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

Declension

Declension of uv

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	uv	uvs
	definite	uven	uvens
plural	indefinite	uvar	uvars
	definite	uvarna	uvarnas

See also

• uggla