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Webster 1913 Edition


Sug

Sug

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Noun.
A kind of worm or larva.
Walton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sug

SUG

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Noun.
[L. sugo, to suck.] A kind or worm.

Definition 2024


sug

sug

See also: súg

English

Verb

sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)

  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?'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Latin sūgō. Compare Daco-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 Daco-Romanian soc.

Noun

sug m

  1. elder, elderberry tree

Lojban

Rafsi

sug

  1. rafsi of sunga.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sug

  1. imperative of suge

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [suɡ]

Verb

sug

  1. first-person singular present tense form of suge.
  2. first-person singular subjunctive form of suge.
  3. third-person plural present tense form of suge.

Somali

Verb

sug

  1. to wait

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːg

Verb

sug

  1. imperative of suga.

Volapük

Noun

sug (plural sugs)

  1. suction

Declension