▪ I. † hugge, v. Obs.
[A variant of ugge.]
a. intr. To shudder, shrink, shiver, or shake with fear or with cold. b. trans. To abhor, abominate.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 191/1 To Huge..abhominari, detestari [etc.]. 1530 Palsgr. 588/2, I hugge, I shrinke me in my bed. It is a good sporte to se this lytle boye hugge in his bedde for colde. 1570 Levins Manip. 184/26 To Hugge, horrescere. |
Hence † hugged ppl. a., abhorred; abominable, ugly.
| c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 138 The stroke lyght on the grete deuyll, soo that hys hugged and foule heed flewe to the earth. |
▪ II. hugge
obs. form of huge.