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La Farge prefers the print edition: “Of course you can look words up online. But how will you stumble on the ones you don’t know you don’t know: ug, or apocalypst, or catoptromancy?”
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2018
Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down.
From Time Magazine Archive
JULIE: The Man with the Iron Mask and the fella who says "ug uh-glug uh-glug uh-glug" when the line is busy.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
In Gothic the same root has produced agis, in the sense of fear, and from the same source we have awe, in awful, i.e. fearful, and ug, in ugly.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
De sharp bit, de strong arm, Hi, ho, ug, hi, ho, ug, Dis tree am done 'fore us warm.'
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
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