Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express horror, disgust, or repugnance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An expression of horror or aversion, usually accompanied by a shudder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • interjection An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection Used to express repugnance, disgust, boredom, annoyance, tiredness, or horror.

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Examples

  • Oh, I know many of you may be rolling your eyes and saying "ugh" -- I'm sick of hearing about Kate's problems.

    Kate Gosselin: It Was A BIG MISTAKE To Eliminate You On DWTS! America Will Regret It! 2010

  • Oh, I know many of you may be rolling your eyes and saying "ugh" -- I'm sick of hearing about Kate's problems.

    Bonnie Fuller: Kate Gosselin: It Was A BIG MISTAKE To Eliminate You On DWTS! America Will Regret It! 2010

  • Of all the things that made me voice the syllable best transliterated as "ugh" - one of them was

    Althouse 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

  • Plantation to me congers up the notion of ugh a job and nothing to do with a racial slur or insult.

    WLNE - News 2009

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