ugh

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   used to express disgust, aversion, horror, or strong annoyance

   Ugh, the milk has gone sour.

2. 2
   intj

   used in writing to represent a guttural grunt or other inarticulate sound

   Ugh! he grunted as he pushed the heavy crate across the floor.

An imitative spelling of a guttural exclamation or grunt, recorded in English from the seventeenth century. Its pronunciation varies widely because it represents a spontaneous sound rather than a fixed sequence of ordinary English phonemes.

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