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hug

noun
/hʌɡ/

Etymology

From earlier hugge (“to embrace, clasp with the arms”) (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck (“to crouch, huddle down”) and Old Norse hugga (“to comfort, console”), from hugr (“mind, heart, thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, thought, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga (“to comfort”), Old English hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).

  1. derived from *hugiz✻ — “mind, thought, sense”
  2. derived from hugga — “to comfort, console”

Definitions

  1. A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief,…

    A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").

  2. A particular grip in wrestling.

  3. To crouch

    To crouch; to huddle as with cold.

    • They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.
    • That is why they are so little known and never explored. During the day, when a Chilean cruiser nosed around uncomfortably close, the little sloop would be hugged under the lee of one of the islands, sail lowered and anchor dropped.
    • bright rocks whose stain of emerald or quartz shaft of shine the starfish hugged beneath the tide .
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To cling closely together.

    2. To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.

      • Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
      • They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.

    3. To stay close to.

      • to hug the shore, to hug the coastline
      • We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
      • Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay.

    4. To hold fast

      To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

      • We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names

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Derived

bear hug, bro hug, bro-hug, bunny-hug, bunny hug, cyberhug, e-hug, hugaholic, hug box, hugbox, hug-box, hug button, hugfest, hugless, hug machine, hug of death, hugsome, man hug, manhug, pouncehug, semihug, side hug, brohug, huggle, huggy, body-hugging, figure-hugging, hug-a-hoodie, huggable, huggee, hugger, huggingly, hug it out, hug-me-tight, hug oneself, overhug, unhug, unhugged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hug. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hug. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at hug

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA