shug

See also: Shug

English

Etymology

Compare shrug.

Verb

shug (third-person singular simple present shugs, present participle shugging, simple past and past participle shugged)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
  2. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To crawl; to sneak.
    • Ford
      There I'll shug in and get a noble countenance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shug in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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