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styg

Pronunciation: [ˈsd̥yɡ̊]

“styg” is a Danish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. bad
  2. ugly
  3. disgusting
  4. nasty
  5. foul

Etymology

From Old Norse styggr, from Proto-Germanic *stugjaz. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål stygg (“ugly”), Norwegian Nynorsk stygg (“ugly”), Swedish stygg (“bad”), Dutch stug (“stiff”).

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