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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To clasp or hold closely, especially in the arms, as in affection; embrace.
  2. v. To hold steadfastly to; cherish: He still hugs his outmoded beliefs.
  3. v. To stay close to: a sailboat hugging the shore.
  4. v. To embrace or cling together closely.
  5. n. A close, affectionate embrace.
  6. n. A crushing embrace, as in wrestling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To crouch; huddle as with cold.
  2. To lie close; cuddle.
  3. To grasp firmly and completely with the arms; embrace closely; clasp to the breast.
  4. To cling to mentally; cherish fondly or fervently; hold fast to: as, to hug delusions.
  5. To keep close to: as, to hug the land.
  6. To carry, especially with difficulty.
  7. n. A close embrace; a clasp or pressure with or as with the arms: as, to give one a hug; the hug of a bear.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An affectionate close embrace.
  2. v. intransitive, obsolete To crouch; huddle as with cold.
  3. v. intransitive To cling closely together.
  4. v. transitive To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
  5. v. transitive To stay close to (the shore etc.)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
  2. v. obsolete To crowd together; to cuddle.
  3. v. To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
  4. v. To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
  5. v. (Naut.) To keep close to
  6. n. A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
  2. v. fit closely or tightly
  3. n. a tight or amorous embrace

Etymologies

  1. From earlier hugge ("to embrace") (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck ("to crouch, huddle down") and Old Norse hugga ("to comfort, console"), from hugr ("courage"), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga ("to comfort"), Old English hyge ("thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride"). More at Huguenot. (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse hugga, to comfort. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Should we perhaps move to group hug? Mar 31, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore *swoons* Mar 30, 2010

  • ruzuzu *hugs bilby, PossibleUnderscore, zo, the next person who reads this, bilby again, a brand-name-cola-with-patented-dynamic-ribbon-device, and oroboros* Mar 30, 2010

  • bilby I owe you a *cough* brand-name-cola-with-patented-dynamic-ribbon-device but oroborrowed it. Mar 30, 2010

  • oroboros Gimme a hug nile gimmu a Coke. Mar 30, 2010

  • ruzuzu *hugs bilby, PossibleUnderscore, zo, the next person who reads this, and bilby, again, unless bilby is the next person to read this, in which case he owes me a Coke* Mar 30, 2010

  • bilby If I'm next person to read this, do I get a double hug? Mar 30, 2010

  • ruzuzu *hugs bilby, PossibleUnderscore, zo, and the next person who reads this* Mar 30, 2010

  • bilby Who. Mar 30, 2010

  • zo *hug back* to the person that wrote that nine months ago :) Mar 30, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore *hug* to the person who reads this. Jul 17, 2009

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