different between ugh vs vugh

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): [?x], [??], [?x], [??], [??], [?k], [?x], [??], [?k], [?], [??]
• , ,

Note: may be nasalized.

Interjection

ugh

1. Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

   Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXI:

     [...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck

2. Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ghu, ghu, hug

Manx

Interjection

ugh!

1. oh!

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish og, from Proto-Celtic *?uyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u/

Noun

ugh m (genitive singular uigh or uighe, plural uighean)

1. egg

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “ugh” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “og”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

English

Noun

vugh (plural vughs)

1. Alternative form of vug
   • 1917, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources, Issues 26-35, page 106,

     Several years later larger vughs at lower levels were met with containing a much greater number of stalactites. One vugh as large as a room contained so many that it was difficult to move about in it.

   • 1955, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Volume 30, page 60,

     The explanation of the not infrequent pairs of hemispherical concretionary masses with polished cross-sections might lie in the miners carefully extracting the rounded and bulbous masses of fluorite projecting from vugh linings.

   • 1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107,

     The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.

Related terms

• vughy

Cornish

Noun

vugh

1. Soft mutation of bugh.