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English

Etymology

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os (“young swine, young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“young pig, hog”). More at farrow.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

US politics sense is related to pork barrel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??k/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?k/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Noun

pork (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

   Synonyms: pigmeat, swineflesh, the other white meat

2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

4. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Derived terms

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (p?ku)

Translations

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?rk/

Noun

pork (plural porks)

1. pork; pig meat
2. swine, pig

Descendants

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

References

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Palsgrave to this entry?)

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.