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suga

“suga” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. carpet bugle, plants in the genus Ajuga

verb

  1. to suck (draw with an attractive force, often negative pressure)
  2. to suck (be very bad or unpleasant)

Etymology

From Old Swedish sūgha, from Old Norse súga, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-. The sense "to be inferior" is a semantic loan from English suck.

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