hugとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”), 古期英語 hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).

発音

• enPR: hŭg, IPA: /hʌɡ/
• 韻: -ʌɡ

名詞

hug (plural hugs)

1. A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, 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.

派生語

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
   • 1885, M. Quad, Field, Fort and Fleet, page 354:

     They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.

   • 1892, Paul Boyton, The Story of Paul Boyton:

     That is why they are so little known and never explored. During the day, when a Chilean cruiser nosed around uncomfortably close, the little sloop would be hugged under the lee of one of the islands, sail lowered and anchor dropped.

   • 1892, The Sewanee Review - Volume 66, page 263:

     bright rocks whose stain of emerald or quartz shaft of shine the starfish hugged beneath the tide .

   • 2014, Thomas Gifford, The Cavanaugh Quest:

     She put her feet on a rung and hugged down against her knees, making herself even smaller.

   • 2020, Zhenyinfang, Marital Passion:

     Zhai Tingshen stood at the window upstairs, his black eyes staring intently at the figure that was tightly hugged below.

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

   Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.

   They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.

4. (transitive) To stay close to.

   to hug the shore, to hug the coastline

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

   • 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 60:

     Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay.

5. (transitive, figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names

同意語

• (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

派生語

参考

• cuddle
• huggle
• kiss
• snuggle
• squeeze

アナグラム

• Ghu, ghu, ugh