trog
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Short for troglodyte.
Noun edit
trog (plural trogs)
- (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)
- (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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Noun edit
trog (plural trôe)
Dutch edit
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)
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trog
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)
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Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish do·furgaib.
Verb edit
trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)
- to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
- to gather up
- to rig up, construct, build
- to elaborate
- to input
- to take
- to invoke
- to wind, winch
- to put up
- to breed
- to rear, nurture, train (as child)
- to arise
- to pull in
- to set in rows
- to sing up
- to harvest
- to rally
- to pick up
- to freshen (of wind)
- to contract (as disease)
- to pick off
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Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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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
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)
Inflection edit
Historical inflection of trog
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2superseded by trau |
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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
- trough
- Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.
- The pigs ate from the trough.
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Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.
Noun edit
trog n
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References edit
- “trog”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press