Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express horror, disgust, or repugnance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An expression of horror or aversion, usually accompanied by a shudder.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.
Examples
“Oh, I know many of you may be rolling your eyes and saying "ugh" -- I'm sick of hearing about Kate's problems.”
“Of all the things that made me voice the syllable best transliterated as "ugh" - one of them was”
“Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.”
“Resolutions are coming, another bright year of running and fighting and playing by ear, of eating no wheat and avoiding all jellies lest purple attracts me, ugh, that is velly - disturbing.”
“Temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s will not feel nearly as bad as yesterday afternoon's "ugh".”
“Low digit due to high "ugh" factor ... cloudy, cool, damp.”
The Washington Post: Forecast: Temps up and down with rain around
“The waitress told me of how someone had ordered the fish as a takeout, TWO fishes in fact, and when they came to collect, they gave this "ugh" look and refused to take them!”
“Mendes: Uh no, getting into her was a little "ugh" but it was also kinda fun, unleashing the predator, it was a good thing.”
Eva Mendes Talks ‘Women,’ Promises Guys Taking Dates Will Get Lucky » MTV Movies Blog
“Between the gruesome clickity click up the hill, and the 'ugh' as you head down -- well, you probably remember.”
“I think you meant the "ugh" to refer to sounding cliche, but I read it this way first.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ugh’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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IxLovexApples's list
this is a list of the words I use the most. if you look at all of them you can kind of tell my personality.
bitch, hot, kool, wow, wtf, omfg, slut, ass, gay, ugh, bleh, spaz and 12 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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dontcry's sounds-like list
sounds like
wow, ugh, arrgh, grrrrrrr, uh-oh, eek, whoa, ah-ha, uh-huh, ungasie, whew, tut-tut and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ugh.
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