hug

CEFRB1

/hʌɡ/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To hold someone closely in your arms.

  2. 02

    noun

    An act of holding someone closely in your arms.

Examples

  • Tom gave Mary a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

  • She wants to hug him.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. A particular grip in wrestling.

  2. To crouch; to huddle as with cold.

noun

Extra meaning

  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").

More examples

In context

  • Tom wants to hug Mary.

  • Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.

  • They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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”), Old English hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).