different between suh vs sug

English

Noun

suh

1. Pronunciation spelling of sir.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     "Good-mawnin', suh," he said, lifting his cap politely.

Anagrams

• HUS, Hsu, Hus, SHU, Shu, USH, shu', uhs, ush

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): s?v

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sux?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?x/

Adjective

s?h (definite s?h?, comparative s?š?, Cyrillic spelling ????) (Croatia)

1. dry, dried
2. thin, meagre, slender (of a man)
3. pinched, haggard, gaunt (of a face)
4. withered, sear

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sux?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *saušas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sú?x/

Adjective

s?h (comparative b?lj s?h, superlative n?jbolj s?h)

1. dry (free from liquid or moisture)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “suh”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology 1

From the initial letters of 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

• GSU, Gus, ugs

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœ?/

Etymology 1

From Dutch zuchten, from Middle Dutch suchten, from Old Dutch *s?fton.

Verb

sug (present sug, present participle sugtende, past participle gesug)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to sigh

Etymology 2

From Dutch zucht, from Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *suf- (“to sip”).

Noun

sug (plural sugte, diminutive suggie)

1. A sigh.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sugu

Etymology 1

From Latin s?g?. Compare Romanian suge, sug.

Verb

sug (past participle suptã)

1. I suck.

Related terms

• sudziri / sudzire, sudzeari / sudzeare
• suptu
• supshu

Etymology 2

From Latin sab?cus, variant of samb?cus. Compare 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): [su?]

Verb

sug

1. inflection of suge:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Somali

Verb

sug

1. to wait

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Verb

sug

1. imperative of suga.

Tausug

Etymology

From earlier suluk. Compare Cebuano sulog, Malay suluk.

Noun

sug

1. the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, water current.

Volapük

Noun

sug (nominative plural sugs)

1. suction

Declension