ugh

(lexically) IPA^(key): /ʌɣ/, /ʌ(ɡ)/, /əː/
(natural exclamation) IPA^(key): [ɯx], [ɯχ], [ɯʀ̊], [ɯɣ], [ə(h)], [əx], [əχ], [əɣ], [ʌx], [ʌχ], [ʌɡ], [ʌk], [ʌʀ̊], [ʊx], [ʊχ], [ʊk], [ʊʀ̊], [ʊ(h)], [ʌ᷈], [ɜ̰ʰ], [ʊɡʱ], [χ], [(ə̃)ᵑh̃], [ʀ̥]
- Note: may be nasalized.
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ugh

Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck

Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXI:
  [...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 57:
  "Ugh, what a smell of Christian blood there is here," screamed the giant.
- 2023, “Paint The Town Red”, in Scarlet, performed by Doja Cat:
  Ugh, you can't take that bitch nowhere
Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.
- 1921, H.G. Wells, “The Grisly Folk”, in Selected Short Stories, published 1958, page 291:
  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.

to express disgust

Arabic: يَع (yaʕ)
Catalan: uf (ca), ecs (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 惡心 / 恶心 (zh) (ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) (pēi), 啐 (zh) (cuì), 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā), 哎 (zh) (āi), 唉 (zh) (ài)
Cornish: ogh
Czech: fuj (cs)
Dutch: bah (nl)
Esperanto: aĉ (eo)
Finnish: hyh (fi)
French: beurk (fr)
German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
Greek: αχ (el) (ach)
Ancient: ψό (psó)
Hebrew: איכס (he) (ikhs), איכסה (he) (íkhsa), פוי (he) (fuy), פויה (he) (fuya)
Hindi: अरे (hi) (are), उफ़ (uf), छी (hi) (chī)
Ido: uf (io)
Italian: che schifo
Japanese: うっ (u'), わっ (wa'), げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ja) (ge'), ゲッ (ge'))
Malay: ee
Mari:
Eastern Mari: фу-у (fu-u)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: æsj (no), fy (no), uff (no)
Persian: ایش (fa) (išš)
Polish: fu (pl)
Portuguese: agh, aff (pt)
Romanian: câh
Russian: фу (ru) (fu), тьфу (ru) (tʹfu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) (be), уф (ru) (uf) (for annoyance)
Spanish: puf (es), guácala (es) (Mexico), fuchi (es) (Mexico), fúchila (Mexico), aj (es)
Swedish: usch (sv)
Tagalog: yak
Tibetan: ཨ་ཡོ (a yo), ཨ་ཁ (a kha)
Turkish: ıı
Welsh: ych (cy)

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