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"HUGS" is a plural of: hug. |
Date "HUGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | HUGS Haskell User's Gofer System. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Crosswords: HUGS |
| English words defined with "HUGS": hugger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HUGS": Haskell User's Gofer System. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't do hugs. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Well, I'm not exactly quaking in my stylish, yet afforable boots, but there's definitely something unnatural going on here And that doesn't usually lead to hugs and puppies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Yeah right, hate hugs. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | The hugs and kisses and the rendezvous' (Broken Promises; performing artist: Tonya Mitchell) | |
Clever | Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hugs and Mugs (1950) Oriental Hugs (1928) Hugs and Kisses I Miss You (1978) | |
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| "Hugging the Dog" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A man hugs his dog while it sleeps on the floor. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "HUGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 54.88% of the time. "HUGS" is used about 82 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 54.88% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 45.12% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "HUGS": hugs and kisses. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hugs | 251 | free hugs | 5 |
kiss hugs | 83 | hugs and kiss necklace | 5 |
hugs kuwait | 65 | cyber hugs | 5 |
big hugs | 27 | hugs quote | 4 |
bear hugs | 22 | ecard hugs | 4 |
hugs virtual | 20 | hugs love | 4 |
animated hugs | 14 | busty hugs | 4 |
angel hugs | 13 | gifs hugs | 4 |
hugs stitch | 12 | hugs kisses.com | 4 |
hugs and kiss bracelet | 11 | hugs kiss poem | 4 |
hugs picture | 10 | hugs kiss ring | 4 |
hugs poem | 10 | card e hugs | 3 |
bear care hugs tug | 9 | big com hugs | 3 |
hershey hugs | 7 | clipart hugs | 3 |
animal homeless hugs | 6 | adopt hugs kuwait soldier | 3 |
drug hugs not | 6 | bear hugs virtual | 3 |
give give hugs love more more | 6 | hugs in snow | 3 |
e hugs | 6 | family hugs | 3 |
hersheys hugs | 6 | hope hugs | 3 |
hugs and kiss jewelry | 5 | hugs kiss n | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "HUGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 拥抱 (Embrace, Embraced, Embracing, hug, Hugged, hugging). (various references) | |
French | embrassement (hugging and kissing, hugs and kisses). (various references) | |
German | Umarmungen (embracings), umarmt (embraces). (various references) | |
Korean | 포옹 (hug). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugshay.(various references) | |
Swedish | kramar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HUGS": bearhugs, chugs, thugs. (additional references) | |
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"HUGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hagas, hagus, heggs, Hgca, hges, hgg, hgss, higgs, hoga, Hoges, hoggs, hogsy, hsg-si, huas, huga, huges, Hugg, hugh, Hughs, hugi, huis, hungs, huns, hurgh, hurs, hus, huss, huug, huus, Huws, Ugs, uhg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HUGS" (pronounced hu"gz) |
| 3 | -u" g z | bugs, drugs, jugs, lugs, mugs, plugs, rugs, shrugs, slugs, thugs, tugs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gush, 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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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