hug
English edit
Etymology edit
From earlier hugge (“to embrace, clasp with the arms”) (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck (“to crouch, huddle down”) and Old Norse hugga (“to comfort, console”), from hugr (“mind, heart, thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, thought, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga (“to comfort”), Old English hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hug (plural hugs)
- A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
- A particular grip in wrestling.
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Verb edit
hug (third-person singular simple present hugs, present participle hugging, simple past and past participle hugged)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
- 1885, M. Quad, Field, Fort and Fleet, page 354:
- They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.
- 1892, Paul Boyton, The Story of Paul Boyton:
- That is why they are so little known and never explored. During the day, when a Chilean cruiser nosed around uncomfortably close, the little sloop would be hugged under the lee of one of the islands, sail lowered and anchor dropped.
- 1892, The Sewanee Review - Volume 66, page 263:
- bright rocks whose stain of emerald or quartz shaft of shine the starfish hugged beneath the tide .
- 2014, Thomas Gifford, The Cavanaugh Quest:
- She put her feet on a rung and hugged down against her knees, making herself even smaller.
- 2020, Zhenyinfang, Marital Passion:
- Zhai Tingshen stood at the window upstairs, his black eyes staring intently at the figure that was tightly hugged below.
- (intransitive) To cling closely together.
- (transitive) To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
- Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
- (transitive) To stay close to.
- to hug the shore, to hug the coastline
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 60:
- Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay.
- (transitive, figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names
Synonyms edit
- (crouch): hunker, squat, stoop
- (cling closely): cleave, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
- (embrace): accoll (obsolete), coll, embrace; see also Thesaurus:embrace
- (stay close to):
- (hold fast): treasure
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Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse hǫgg, verbal noun to hǫggva (“to hew”) (Danish hugge).
Noun edit
hug n (singular definite hugget, plural indefinite hug)
Declension edit
References edit
- “hug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hug (uninflected)
References edit
- “hug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hug
- imperative of hugge
Faroese edit
Noun edit
hug m
Manx edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish co (“to”). Compare Irish chuig and Scottish Gaelic gu.
Preposition edit
hug
Inflection edit
Singular | Plural | ||||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd m. | 3rd f. | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Normal | hym | hood | huggey | huic | hooin | hiu | huc |
Emphatic | hyms | hoods | huggeysyn | huicish | hooinyn | hiuish | hucsyn |
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
hug
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse hugr (“thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz og uncertain origin. Cognates include Norwegian Bokmål hu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hug m (definite singular hugen, indefinite plural hugar, definite plural hugane)
- (chiefly uncountable) mind
- (chiefly uncountable, collective) one's thoughts
- (chiefly uncountable) wish, desire
- 1971, Olav H. Hauge, T'ao Ch'ien:
- Meir enn fyrr har han hug å draga seg attende til ein slik hageflekk.
- More than before, he has a desire to retreat to such a small garden.
- (uncountable, folklore) an itch in the nose which comes when someone is thinking of one, or as a warning that someone is about to arrive
Derived terms edit
- arbeidshug
- brennhug
- eldhug
- elskhug
- eventyrhug
- folkehug
- forhuga
- framhug
- fridomshug
- frihug
- giftehug
- gladhug
- glohug
- godhug
- gudshug
- gå-på-hug
- halvhuga
- hardhuga
- heilhuga
- heimhug
- hemnhug
- huga
- hugal
- hugast
- hugbera
- hugbrann
- hugbrot
- hugbrå
- hugdjerv
- hugdrag
- huge
- hugfallen
- hugfin
- hugheil
- hugill
- huglag
- hugleg
- huglegge
- hugleik
- huglynne
- hugløyse
- hugmild
- hugmjuk
- hugmål
- hugnad
- hugram
- hugrørsle
- hugs
- hugsam
- hugsam
- hugsjuk
- hugsott
- hugsprengd
- hugsprenge
- hugstela
- hugsterk
- hugstor
- hugstyrke
- hugsut
- hugsvala
- hugsviv
- hugsyn
- hugsår
- hugta
- hugtung
- hugvarm
- hugvende
- hugverk
- hugvill
- ihuga
- illhug
- kapphug
- koma i hug
- lesehug
- livshug
- mathug
- medhug
- mishug
- mothug
- nasehug
- offerhug
- omhug
- ovhug
- reddhug
- reisehug
- samhug
- skrivehug
- stridshug
- tilhug
- tiltakshug
- tvihug
- utferdshug
- vanhug
- vetehug
- vondhug
Related terms edit
Adjective edit
hug
- (predicative) keen, eager
References edit
- “hug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse edit
Noun edit
hug