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Definition: HUGGED |
HUGGEDImperative & past participle1. Of Hug |
Date "HUGGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I still remember the first time I kissed Sylvia, or the last time I hugged my father before he died. (Liberty Heights; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Trunks, I never hugged you as a babylet me hug you. (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) I like to be hugged! I like to be hugged! (Child's Play 2; writing credit: Don Mancini) | |
Lyrics | For a moment he forgot who he was or maybe this kid just wanted to be hugged (Youth Of The Nation; performing artist: P.O.D.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bunny Hugged (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | From time to time she heaved a deep sigh, as if she were about to wake, and she hugged the doll almost convulsively. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry | The first person I saw was my dad. He made sure that he was in front of the plane when it opened, the back of it opened up, and he was the first one I saw and we ran out and hugged each other. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | As I have met the heroes, hugged the families, and looked into the tired faces of rescuers, I have stood in awe of the American people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "HUGGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 91.14% of the time. "HUGGED" is used about 395 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 91.14% | 360 | 14,962 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 7.85% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.01% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 395 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HUGGED": bear-hugged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hugged | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HUGGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 拥抱 (Embrace, Embraced, Embracing, hug, hugging, HUGS). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | umarmte (embraced). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 껴안". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uggedhay kramade. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HUGGED": chugged. (additional references) | |
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"HUGGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hagege, hagge, hged, higges, hoged, Hogge, hogges, hogid, huged, huggath, hugge, huggett, huggies, Hugnet, hunged, nugged, phugoid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HUGGED" (pronounced hu"gd) |
| 3 | -u" g d | bugged, chugged, drugged, mugged, plugged, shrugged, slugged, tugged, unplugged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-h-u" | |
-2 letters: gude, hued, huge. | |
-3 letters: due, dug, duh, edh, egg, ged, hue, hug, ugh. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, eh, he, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-h-u" | |
+1 letter: chugged. | |
+2 letters: shrugged. | |
+3 letters: humbugged. | |
+5 letters: chugalugged, goddaughter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 55 47 47 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... ..- --. --. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01010101 01000111 01000111 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H U G G E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0055 0047 0047 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)425541413938 |
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