sug

See also: súg and sūg

English

Etymology 1

From "selling under the guise of research".

Verb

sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)

  1. (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

sug (plural not attested)

  1. (informal) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
    • 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women (page 124)
      “Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”
    • 2013, James Oseland, ‎Giles Coren, ‎Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road
      She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Latin sūgō. Compare Daco-Romanian suge, sug.

Verb

sug (past participle suptã)

  1. I suck.
  • sudziri/sudzire, sudzeari/sudzeare
  • suptu
  • supshu

Etymology 2

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Daco-Romanian soc.

Noun

sug m

  1. elder, elderberry tree

Livonian

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) su'g

Etymology

Related to Finnish suku.

Noun

sug

  1. kind
  2. sort
  3. gender
  4. relative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sug

  1. imperative of suge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sug

  1. imperative of suga

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [suɡ]

Verb

sug

  1. first-person singular present indicative of suge.
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of suge.
  3. third-person plural present indicative of suge.

Somali

Verb

sug

  1. to wait

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

sug

  1. imperative of suga.

Volapük

Noun

sug (plural sugs)

  1. suction

Declension

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