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Webster 1913 Edition

Ugh

Ugh

(oŏ)

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int

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An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Definition 2024

ugh

ugh

English

Interjection

ugh

Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.
Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.

Synonyms

See Wikisaurus:yuck

Translations

to express disgust

Arabic: يَع ‎(yaʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 惡心 (zh), 恶心 (zh) ‎(ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) ‎(pēi), 啐 (zh) ‎(cuì), 哎呀 (zh) ‎(āiyā), 哎 (zh) ‎(āi), 唉 (zh) ‎(ài)
Dutch: bah (nl)
Esperanto: aĉ
Finnish: hyh
French: beurk (fr)
German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
Greek: αχ (el) ‎(ach)
Hebrew: אִיכְס (he) ‎(ikhs), פוּי ‎(fui)

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
Portuguese: agh
Romanian: câh
Russian: фу (ru) ‎(fu), тьфу (ru) ‎(tʹfu), фе (ru) ‎(fe), фи (ru) ‎(fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) ‎(be)
Spanish: puf (es), guácala (es) (Mexico)
Swedish: usch (sv)
Turkish: ıı
Welsh: ych (cy)

Anagrams

hug

Manx

Interjection

ugh!

oh!

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)

egg

Derived terms

Terms derived from ugh

bonnach-uighe ‎(“omelette”)
plaosg-uighe ‎(“eggshell”)

ughlann ‎(“ovary”)
ugh na Càisge ‎(“Easter egg”)

uighean pronn ‎(“scrambled eggs”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“og” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.