See also: Trog, trög, and tròg

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɹɒɡ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1 edit

Short for troglodyte.

Noun edit

trog (plural trogs)

  1. (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
    • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 253:
      ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2 edit

Unknown.

Verb edit

trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

  1. (slang) To walk laboriously; to trudge.
    • 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:
      So down Westwood Road I trogged, looking left, looking right, searching high and low for Slade Alley.

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Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch trog.

Noun edit

trog (plural trôe)

  1. trough

Dutch edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, English trough, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (wooden basin), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, ladle, spoon)), enlargement of *dóru (tree).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

  1. trough
  2. (geology) trench

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trog

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse trog

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

  1. trough

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Manx edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish do·furgaib.

Verb edit

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

  1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
  2. to gather up
  3. to rig up, construct, build
  4. to elaborate
  5. to input
  6. to take
  7. to invoke
  8. to wind, winch
  9. to put up
  10. to breed
  11. to rear, nurture, train (as child)
  12. to arise
  13. to pull in
  14. to set in rows
  15. to sing up
  16. to harvest
  17. to rally
  18. to pick up
  19. to freshen (of wind)
  20. to contract (as disease)
  21. to pick off

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trog hrog drog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

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Noun edit

trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of trau
  2. (pre-1938) alternative form of trau

Inflection edit

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Old English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz. Related to Dutch trog, German Trog, Icelandic trog.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

trog m

  1. trough
    Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.
    The pigs ate from the trough.

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Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle English: trogh
  • Irish: trach

Old Norse edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun edit

trog n

  1. trough

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Descendants edit

References edit

  • trog”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press