different between hug vs pinch

English

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 hy?e (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?g, IPA^(key): /h??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

hug (plural hugs)

1. A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, 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.

Translations

Verb

hug (third-person singular simple present hugs, present participle hugging, simple past and past participle hugged)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.

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2. (intransitive) To cling closely together.
3. (transitive) To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.

4. (transitive) To stay close to (the shore etc.)
5. (transitive, figuratively) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names

Synonyms

• (crouch): hunker, squat, stoop
• (cling closely): cleave, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
• (embrace): accoll (obsolete), coll, embrace; see also Thesaurus:embrace
• (stay close to):
• (hold fast): treasure

Translations

Derived terms

• body-hugging
• figure-hugging
• hug oneself
• huggable
• huggle
• huggy

See also

• cuddle
• huggle
• kiss
• snuggle
• squeeze

Anagrams

• Ghu, ghu, ugh

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?/, [?h???]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse h?gg, verbal noun to h?ggva (“to hew”) (Danish hugge).

Noun

hug n (singular definite hugget, plural indefinite hug)

1. stroke
2. slash
3. cut

Inflection

References

• “hug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?/, [?hu??]

Noun

hug (uninflected)

1. squat

References

• “hug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?/, [?h???]

Verb

hug

1. imperative of hugge

Faroese

Noun

hug m

1. indefinite accusative singular of hugur

Manx

Preposition

hug

1. to

Inflection

Verb

hug

1. past tense of toyr

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hau

Etymology

From Old Norse hugr (“thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz. Cognates include Norwegian Bokmål hu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h???/, /h??/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

hug m (definite singular hugen, indefinite plural hugar, definite plural hugane)

1. (chiefly uncountable) mind
2. (chiefly uncountable, collective) one's thoughts
3. (chiefly uncountable) wish, desire
   • 1971, Olav H. Hauge, "T'ao Ch'ien":

     Meir enn fyrr har han hug å draga seg attende til ein slik hageflekk.

     More than before, he has a desire to retreat to such a small garden.

4. (uncountable, folklore) an itch in the nose which comes when someone is thinking of one, or as a warning that someone is about to arrive

Derived terms

Related terms

Adjective

hug

1. (predicative) keen, eager

References

• “hug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

   The children were scolded for pinching each other.

   This shoe pinches my foot.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.

   Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
5. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
6. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
7. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
8. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

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   • 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper

     the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
11. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

    to be pinched for money

    • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

      want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation

    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

      The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
13. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
    • 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

      Therefore who so them accuse

      Of any double entencion,

      To speake, rowne, other to muse,

      To pinch at their condicion,

      All is but false collusion,

      I dare rightwell the sothe express,

      They have no better protection,

      But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

Derived terms

• pinch off
• pinch out
• pinch a loaf

Translations

Noun

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.

   I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:

     It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
   • 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:

     It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.

9. (slang) An arrest.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)

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