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Webster 1913 Edition

Hug

Hug

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hugged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hugging
.]
[Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan.
sidde paa huk
to squat, Sw.
huka sig
to squat, Icel.
h[GREEK]ka
. Cf.
Huckster
.]
1.
To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
[Obs.]
Palsgrave.
2.
To crowd together; to cuddle.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Hug

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
“And huggen me in his arms.”
Shak.
2.
To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
We
hug
deformities if they bear our names.
Glanvill.
3.
(Naut.)
To keep close to;
as, to
hug
the land; to
hug
the wind.
To hug one’s self
,
to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.

Hug

,
Noun.
A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hug

HUG

, v.t.
1.
To press close in an embrace.
--And hugged me in his arms.
2.
To embrace closely; to hold fast; to treat with fondness.
We hug deformities, if they bear our names.
3.
To gripe in wrestling or scuffling.
To hug the land, in sailing, to sail as near the land as possible.
hug the wind, to keep the ship close-hauled.

HUG

,
Noun.
A close embrace.
1.
A particular gripe in wrestling or scuffling.

Definition 2024

Hug

Hug

Catalan

Proper noun

Hug m

  1. Hugh

hug

hug

See also: húg

English

Noun

hug ‎(plural hugs)

  1. An affectionate close embrace.

Translations

Verb

hug ‎(third-person singular simple present hugs, present participle hugging, simple past and past participle hugged)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Palsgrave to this entry?)
  2. (intransitive) To cling closely together.
  3. (transitive) To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
    Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.‎
  4. (transitive) To stay close to (the shore etc.)
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
  5. (transitive, figuratively) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
    • Glanvill
      We hug deformities if they bear our names.

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Derived terms

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hǫgg, verbal noun to hǫggva ‎(“to hew”).

Noun

hug n (singular definite hugget, plural indefinite hug)

  1. stroke
  2. slash
  3. cut
Inflection

Etymology 2

Noun

hug ‎(only one form)

  1. squat

Verb

hug

  1. imperative of hugge

Faroese

Noun

hug m

  • Indefinite accusative singular of hugur
  1. thought, sense, spirit
  2. desire, interest

Manx

Preposition

hug

  1. to

Inflection

Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd m. 3rd f. 1st 2nd 3rd
Normal hym hood huggey huic hooin hiu huc
Emphatic hyms hoods huggeysyn huicish hooinyn hiuish hucsyn

Verb

hug

  1. past tense of toyr

Etymology

From earlier hugge ‎(“to embrace”) (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck ‎(“to crouch, huddle down”) and Old Norse hugga ‎(“to comfort, console”), from hugr ‎(“courage”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz ‎(“mind, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga ‎(“to comfort”), Old English hyge ‎(“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŭg, IPA(key): /hʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

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