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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sug"
Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
sug
See also
English
Etymology 1
From the initial letters of selling under the guise of research, especially in the market industry.
Verb
sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)
- (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
sug (plural not attested)
- (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?'
Anagrams
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Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch zuchten, from Middle Dutch suchten, from Old Dutch *sūfton.
Verb
sug (present sug, present participle sugtende, past participle gesug)
- (intransitive, transitive) to sigh
Etymology 2
From Dutch zucht, from Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *suf- (“to sip”).
Noun
sug (plural sugte, diminutive suggie)
- a sigh
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Latin sūgō. Compare Romanian suge, sug.
Verb
sug (participle suptã)
- to suck
Related terms
- sudziri / sudzire, sudzeari / sudzeare
- suptu
- supshu
Etymology 2
From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Romanian soc.
Noun
sug m
- elder, elderberry tree
Livonian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *suku. Cognates include Finnish suku.
Pronunciation
Noun
su’g
Declension
Adverb
su’g
References
- Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “su’g”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
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Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
sug
- imperative of suge
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
sug
- inflection of suge:
Somali
Verb
sug
- to wait
Sumerian
Romanization
sug
- romanization of 𒆹 (sug)
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʉːɡ
Noun
sug n
- suction, sucking, "suck"
- (figuratively) craving
- sötsug
- sweet cravings
- Produkten dämpar röksuget
- The product reduces smoking cravings
- (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
- (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"
- (figuratively) craving
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
sug c
- (usually in compounds) a device that sucks something
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
sug
- imperative of suga
References
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Volapük
Noun
sug (nominative plural sugs)
Declension
1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Welsh
Etymology
Derived from Late Latin sūcus (“juice”). Cf. Old Irish súg.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /sɨ̞ːɡ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /siːɡ/
Noun
sug m (usually uncountable, plural sugion or sugau, not mutable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sug”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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