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ugh

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • //ʌɣ//
  • //ʌ(ɡ)//
  • //ʌx//

Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

interjection

  1. 1

    Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

    Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.

    [...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.

    "Ugh, what a smell of Christian blood there is here," screamed the giant.

    Ugh, you can't take that bitch nowhere

  2. 2

    Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.

    The brothers surveyed the wide prospect earnestly. "Ugh!" said one abruptly and pointed. "Ugh!" cried his brother. The eyes of the whole tribe swung round to the pointing finger. The group became one rigid stare.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).