Ug v.

Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 3 subj. uggi, 4–6 ugge (vgge, 5 vggyn, -one), 5–6, 9 ugg (Sc. 5 owgg, 6 vgg, wgg), 5–6, 8–9 ug (5–6 vg, 6 Sc. wg); 5 ughe, uge. [a. ON. ugga to fear, dread, apprehend: cf. prec. and HUGGE v.]

  1.  trans. To inspire or affect with dread, loathing, or disgust.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 92. Ȝe schulen biholden sumetime touward te pine of helle, þet ou agrupie aȝean ham [Titus MS. þet ow uggi wið ham].

1434.  Misyn, Mending Life, 122. If my handis schyne as clennes,… ȝit sall þou toche me with fylth,… & my clothes sall vg me.

c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 157. He spewid oute a grete froske … And when Nero lukid þervppon, hym vggid þerwith.

c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 7069. What he suld do he na wyste With þe sacrement…; him vgged to vse it and to ete.

1560.  Rolland, Seven Sages, 124. My flesche it vggis quhen y^t I tuitche his hyde.

1894.  Heslop, Northumbld. Gloss., 754. He was ugged wi’ eatin the stuff.

  2.  intr. To feel dread or apprehension, disgust or loathing. Usu. const. at, of, or with.

a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xxxiv. 7. Wha is þat vggis not with a way þat is bath myrke & skliþer. Ibid. (c. 1340), Pr. Consc., 6419. For þa paynes er swa fel and hard,… Þat ilk man may ugge, bathe yhunge and alde, Þat heres þam be reherced and talde.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 117. Ne ugge þou not wiþ seknesse of þyn evyn Cristyn.

c. 1400.  Sc. Trojan War, II. 1097. Nought at the deth sche wggis there.

14[?].  Tundale’s Vis., 317. Of hit was Tundale fulle yrke. When he hit sawe, he ugged sore.

1434.  Misyn, Mending of Life, 122. My flesch makis me vg of my-self.

c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 209. He vgged so with þe fend þat he cryed hugelie, & said he wold nott go with hym.

c. 1590.  J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 228. Glottonnie he vas so filthie fy, I vggit vith the discheis quhilk he buir.

1865.  Janet Hamilton, Poems (1885), 100. It’s no the wife that curls her nose At cogs o’ sowens or cadger’s brose, An’ uggs at lang-kail.

  † b.  Const. to with inf. Obs.

a. 1395.  Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xv. (W. de W., 1494). It is made … soo dredfull to her thynkynge that they uggen & lothen for to thinke vpon it.

1435.  Misyn, Fire of Love, 43. Þa vg … to be borne to þer lust.

c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 478. Becauce þou vggid to sla so mych innocent blude.

c. 1560.  A. Scott, Poems, xxxiv. 119. I vg, for villanie, Ȝour vycis to reherss.

1562.  Winȝet, Vincent. Lirin., xi. Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 31. Quhat materis I pray ȝow? I wg to tell.

  c.  Sc. (See quot.)

1824.  Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., Ugg, to vomit.

  3.  trans. To abhor, loathe, detest.

a. 1340.  Hampole, Ps. xli. 13. He þis felid of þe swetnes of heuen, and vggid þe perils or þe warld.

c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 109. Wylful begging of stalworþ men … of Salomon … is vggid, and many fold reprouid of holy doctoris.

1435.  Misyn, Fire of Love, 64. A trew sawle … lufys meyknes; vaynglory it vggis, for myrth euer-lastyng onely desyrand.

a. 1568.  ‘My Mistres,’ 26, in Bannatyne Poems (1881), VII. 1081. I hate and vgg hir greedie dispositioune.

1721.  Ramsay, To Earl Dalhousie, 47. What his kind frighted mother ugs, Is music to the soger’s lugs.

1793.  T. Scott, Poems, 367. Thus ane aye seekin’ what another ugs.

1825.  Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Ug, to feel abhorrence at.

  Hence † Ugged ppl. a., horrid, loathsome. Obs.^–0 Ugging ppl. a., causing loathing or disgust. Sc.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 49/20. Vgged, fædus.

1832–53.  A. MacLaggan, in Whistle-binkie, Ser. II. 118. I’m neither sae auld, auld, Nor am I sae gruesome or uggin.