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sug

See also: súg and sūg

English

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Etymology 1

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From the initial letters of selling under the guise of research, especially in the market industry.

Verb

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sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)

  1. (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.

Etymology 2

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Shortening.

Noun

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sug (plural not attested)

  1. (informal) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
    • 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women, page 124:
      “Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”
    • 2013, James Oseland, Giles Coren, Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road:
      She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch zuchten, from Middle Dutch suchten, from Old Dutch *sūfton.

Verb

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sug (present sug, present participle sugtende, past participle gesug)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to sigh

Etymology 2

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From Dutch zucht, from Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *suf- (“to sip”).

Noun

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sug (plural sugte, diminutive suggie)

  1. a sigh

Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Latin sūgō. Compare Romanian suge, sug.

Verb

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sug first-singular present indicative (past participle suptã)

  1. to suck
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Etymology 2

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From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Romanian soc.

Noun

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sug m

  1. elder, elderberry tree

Livonian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *suku. Cognates include Finnish suku.

Noun

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sug

  1. kind
  2. sort
  3. gender
  4. relative

Declension

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Declension of sug (74)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) sug sugūd
genitive (genitīv) sug sugūd
partitive (partitīv) suggõ sugīdi
dative (datīv) suggõn sugūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) sugkõks sugūdõks
illative (illatīv) suggõ sugži
inessive (inesīv) sugsõ
sugs 		sugši
elative (elatīv) sugstõ
sugst 		sugšti

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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sug

  1. imperative of suge

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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sug

  1. imperative of suga

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sug

  1. inflection of suge:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Somali

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Verb

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sug

  1. to wait

Sumerian

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Romanization

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sug

  1. Romanization of 𒆹 (sug)

Swedish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from suga (“suck”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sug n

  1. suction, sucking, "suck"
    1. (figuratively) craving
      sötsug
      sweet cravings
      Produkten dämpar röksuget
      The product reduces smoking cravings
    2. (figuratively) demand
      Det har varit ett enormt sug efter vår nya kebabsås
      There has been a huge demand ("suck") for our new kebab sauce
      Synonym: efterfrågan
    3. (figuratively) attraction
      ha sug i blicken
      have a gaze that draws your attention (often in a romantic or flirtatious sense), "have suck in one's gaze"

Declension

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Declension of sug 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative sug suget — —
Genitive sugs sugets — —

Derived terms

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Noun

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sug c

  1. (usually in compounds) a device that sucks something

Declension

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Declension of sug 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sug sugen sugar sugarna
Genitive sugs sugens sugars sugarnas

Derived terms

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Verb

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sug

  1. imperative of suga

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Volapük

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Noun

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sug (nominative plural sugs)

  1. suction

Declension

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declension of sug
singular plural
nominative sug sugs
genitive suga sugas
dative suge suges
accusative sugi sugis
vocative 1 o sug! o sugs!
predicative 2 sugu sugus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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