sug
English
Etymology 1
From "selling under the guise of research".
Verb
sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)
- (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
sug (plural not attested)
- (informal) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
- 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women (page 124)
- “Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”
- 2013, James Oseland, Giles Coren, Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road
- She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'
- 2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women (page 124)
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [suɡ]
Somali
Volapük
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