UGH

Definition: UGH

UGH

Interjection

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references)

Dislike

Interjection: faugh! foh! ugh!

Crosswords: UGH

Scottish (addled egg, egg, egg : ugh-gluig).

Ugh! Butter tea, it was never my cup of tea. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Ugh, I'm only ten and I already got two mortal enemies! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Ugh! Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose is as long as a telephone wire. (Ultimo tango a Parigi; writing credit: Bernardo Bertolucci;)

But do you know they will not even let us have it? Can you believe it? Why? Man! He likes to create a stink! I mean, I've seen filth that you wouldn't believe. Ugh! What a stink! (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson)

Ugh! Look at all the junk food! (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

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

Books

• Never Say Ugh to a Bug (reference)

• Ugh (reference)

• Ugh Ugh Ocean (reference)

• Ugh! a Bug (reference)

• Ugh! Bugs!: An Integrated Unit (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

The deaf toll] Ugh! They all look hungry -- do they know any stories. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Albanian

ohu. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هتاف يفيد معنى الأشمئزاز. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ух, уф. (various references)

Farsi 

پیف , اه (Ah, Alas, Sigh, Woe). (various references)

French

pouah. (various references)

German

pfui (boo, oy, pooh, shame, shoo, yuck). (various references)

Hebrew 

איכס (yuck). (various references)

Italian

puh (pah, poo). (various references)

Pig Latin

ughay

Romanian

uf (ah, alas, fie), fui. (various references)

Russian 

фу (boo, phew, pooh, yuck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uh. (various references)

Spanish

puf. (various references)

Swedish

usch (och, whew, yah, yuk). (various references)

Turkish

of (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pooh, pshaw, whew), öf (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pooh, pshaw, whew). (various references)

Ukrainian

тьху (pooh, tut), ай (ai, ouch). (various references)

Welsh

ach (ancestry, degree of kinship, pedigree). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "UGH": ughs. (additional references)

Words ending with "UGH": although, borough, bough, breakthrough, brugh, chough, clough, cough, dough, enough, faugh, furlough, haugh, heugh, hiccough, horselaugh, interborough, kiaugh, laugh, lough, outlaugh, overslaugh, plough, pugh, rough, saugh, shaugh, sheugh, slough, sough, sourdough, sugh, teugh, thorough, though, through, tough, trough, unrough, usquebaugh, vugh, waugh, wherethrough, yarborough. (additional references)

Words containing "UGH": abought, aforethought, afterthought, afterthoughts, aught, aughts, besought, bethought, boroughs, boughed, boughpot, boughpots, boughs, bought, boughten, breakthroughs, brougham, broughams, brought, brughs, bughouse, bughouses, caught, choughs, claught, claughted, claughting, claughts, cloughs, coughed, cougher, coughers, coughing, coughs, daughter, daughterless, daughters, distraught, distraughtly, dogfought, doughboy, doughboys, doughface, doughfaces, doughier, doughiest, doughlike, doughnut, doughnutlike, doughnuts, doughs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hug.

-1 letter: uh.

+1 letter: chug, gush, huge, hugs, hung, pugh, sugh, thug, ughs, vugh.

+2 letters: aught, bough, brugh, burgh, chugs, cough, dough, faugh, ghaut, ghoul, gulch, gursh, gushy, haugh, heugh, huger, laugh, lough, ought, rough, saugh, shrug, sough, sughs, teugh, thugs, tough, vughs, waugh.

+3 letters: aguish, aughts, boughs, bought, brughs, bugsha, burghs, caught, chough, clough, coughs, curagh, doughs, dought, doughy, enough, fought, gauche, gaucho, ghauts, ghouls, glunch, grouch, grutch, gushed, gusher, gushes, hagbut, hangul, hangup, haughs, heughs, hognut, hugely, hugest, hugged, hugger, humbug, hunger, hungry, kiaugh, laughs, loughs, naught, nought, oughts, plough, quahog, quaigh, quohog, rehung, roughs, saughs, saughy, shaugh, sheugh, shogun, shrugs, slough, soughs, sought, sughed, taught, though, toughs, toughy, trough, unhang, unhung, waught.