ugh

[ ookh, uhkh, uh, oo; spelling pronunciation uhg ]

/ ʊx, ʌx, ʌ, ʊ; spelling pronunciation ʌg /

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interjection

(used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, horror, or the like).

noun

the sound of a cough, grunt, or the like.

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Words nearby ugh

Uganda, Ugandan, Ugarit, Ugaritic, UGC, ugh, Ugli, uglify, ugly, Ugly American, ugly as sin

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How to use ugh in a sentence

Bulls put more emphasis on the Ugh, so to sound more like a cow, concentrate on the E’s and R’s, he says.
How to track and spot a wild moose|Noah Lederman|October 19, 2021|Popular-Science
No, we think, “Ugh, now who is gonna clean all the blood from the street!”
What It Feels Like For a Girl in Iraq|Noor|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That was a line when I read the script that I was like, ugh!
Jason Schwartzman Is the Nicest Jerk You’ll Ever Meet in ‘Listen Up Philip’|Emma Myers|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How one ‘Angry Black Woman’ (ugh) revolutionized gay characters on TV.
The Best of the Beast, Sept 22-28: Eric Holder and the President’s Tow Truck Driver|The Daily Beast|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That kind of made its way to me and I was like, ugh, you people are ridiculous.
Is Elisabeth Moss the One 'True Detective' Loves? She Doesn't Deny It.|Melissa Leon|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But yeah, the people who went, “Ugh, how annoying,” probably forgot about it five seconds later.
Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ Drunken Horror Stories, and Singin’ Pharrell|Marlow Stern|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
"Ugh, um," she sputtered, as some of the flour flew into her eyes and nostrils.
Patchwork|Anna Balmer Myers
The furthest of those two poor devils stuck up there against the rock—ugh!
A Frontier Mystery|Bertram Mitford
He gave him some stuff out of a little flasky bottle, too, and Greg sputtered over it and said “Ugh!”
Us and the Bottleman|Edith Ballinger Price
You come to feel as if you were dressed in skins, as if you were living in a cave and eating out of a trough—ugh!
Creditors; Pariah|August Strindberg
Me catch peacockses for you, ye lazy scutts—an' be sacrificed by the peasanthry—ugh!'
Soldier Stories|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for ugh

ugh

/ (ʊx, ʊh, ʌh) /

interjection

an exclamation of disgust, annoyance, or dislike

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