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SHUG

Definitions: SHUG

SHUG

Intransitive verb

1. Hence, to crawl; to sneak.

2. To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"SHUG" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fire".

Note: Shug \Shug\, intransitive verb. [Compare to Shrug.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: SHUG

DomainDefinitions

Computing

SHUG Scottish Hypermedia Users' Group. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: SHUG

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Fall of Shug McCracken (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SHUG

"SHUG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "SHUG" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)70%7133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)30%3202,518
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: SHUG

"SHUG" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fire".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "SHUG."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
HugoMaleDutchHugh
HudsonMaleEnglishHugh
HughMaleEnglishAodh
HughieMaleEnglishHugh
HugoMaleEnglishHugh
HuguesMaleFrenchHugh
HugoMaleGermanHugh
AodhMaleIrishN/A
UgoMaleItalianHugh
HugoMalePortugueseHugh
AodhMaleScottishN/A
ShugMaleScottishHugh
HugoMaleSpanishHugh
HuwMaleWelshHugh
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHUG

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

knight shug

22

avery shug

9

shug

8

night shug

7

iceberg shug

4

jordan shug

3

big shug

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SHUG

Derivations

Words containing "SHUG": meshuga, meshugah, meshugga, meshuggah, meshugge, meshuggener, meshuggeners. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SHUG"

Words ending with "ug": bug, Mug, Sprug, SUG. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SHUG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gush, hugs, sugh, ughs.

Words within the letters "g-h-s-u"

-1 letter: hug, ugh.

-2 letters: sh, uh, us.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-s-u"
 

+1 letter: chugs, gursh, gushy, saugh, shrug, sough, sughs, thugs, vughs.

 

+2 letters: aguish, aughts, boughs, brughs, bugsha, burghs, coughs, doughs, ghauts, ghouls, gushed, gusher, gushes, haughs, heughs, hugest, laughs, loughs, oughts, roughs, saughs, saughy, shaugh, sheugh, shogun, shrugs, slough, soughs, sought, sughed, toughs.

 

+3 letters: anguish, bugshas, bushing, bushpig, choughs, cloughs, curaghs, enoughs, gauchos, goulash, grushie, gulches, gumshoe, gunship, gunshot, gurshes, gushers, gushier, gushily, gushing, hagbush, hagbuts, hangups, hognuts, housing, hugeous, huggers, humbugs, hungers, hushing, husking, kiaughs, lushing, meshuga, mugshot, mushing, naughts, noughts, outgush, ploughs, puggish, pushing, quahogs, quaighs, quohogs, roguish, rushing, shaughs, sheughs, shoguns, shotgun, shuting, sloughs, sloughy, sorghum, soughed, sughing, troughs, tushing, unhangs, unsight, voguish, waughts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHUG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 55 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    ..-    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01010101 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#85 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0055 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53425541

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Derived from
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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