ugh

[ oo kh, 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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Examples from the Web for ugh

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
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

Questions remaining: Ugh, seriously, that happened to a human being?
Lesser Mysteries for Those With Breaking News Fatigue|Kelly Williams Brown|March 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An' when it come to pullin', there was he makin' out to be pullin', leanin' back with his arms stretched out a-gruntin' 'Ugh!
Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer|George Sturt (AKA George Bourne)
It is bad enough to hunt them fairly, but to feed them and then kill them—ugh!
Blacky the Crow|Thornton W. Burgess
Ugh, this filthy tobacco; it chokes me, and I can scarcely see across the hall.
Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893|Various
For reply their eyes met, and from the Indian's deep chest came the single word, "Ugh."
Rolf In The Woods|Ernest Thompson Seton
Ugh—what the devil would you do in those damnable sickly gutters—floundering about in the brackish ditchwater?
When We Dead Awaken|Henrik Ibsen

British Dictionary definitions for ugh

ugh

/ (ʊx, ʊh, ʌh) /

interjection

an exclamation of disgust, annoyance, or dislike

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Word Origin and History for ugh