lug
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lug
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: lŭg, IPA(key): /lʌɡ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌɡ
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English luggen, possibly from Scandinavian source, (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge); also in English dialectal as lig (“to lug”). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which may be from similar source(s). See slow.
Noun edit
lug (plural lugs)
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- a hard lug
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- The pack is a heavy lug.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC:
- whereof the one is quick of cast, trick, and trim both for pleasure and profit: the other is a lug
- A lug nut.
- (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- Synonym: big lug
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
- A lugworm.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- 2013, Paul Burke, The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife:
- He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]
Derived terms edit
- (protruding support): launch lug
- lug bolt
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Verb edit
lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- Why do you always lug around so many books?
- c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought:
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- 2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 48:
- Luggage areas need to be within sight, rather than at the end of carriages, despite the inconvenience of lugging cases further into a carriage.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
- When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English lugge (“pole, stick, staff”).
Noun edit
lug (plural lugs)
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- 1567, George Turberville, Epitome:
- And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.
- (UK, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16 1⁄2 feet.
- Synonym: rod
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
- eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell
- (nautical) A lugsail.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
References edit
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]
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lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)
Usage notes edit
The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *lug(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian liũgas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German slūch (“gulf, abyss”).[1]
Noun edit
lug m (plural lugje, definite lugu, definite plural lugjet)
- trough, (water) channel, spillway
- groove (especially in trees)
- valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)
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References edit
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 244
Irish edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /l̪ˠʌɡ/
- Homophones: lag, log (Ulster)
Noun edit
lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)
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Derived terms edit
- lug seoil (“lugsail”)
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lug”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Livonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *luku. Cognates include Finnish luku.
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lug
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Romanization edit
lug
- Romanization of ᚂᚒᚌ
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lug n
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.
Noun edit
lȗg m (Cyrillic spelling лу̑г)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | lȗg | lȕgovi/ lȗzi |
genitive | luga | lȕgōvā |
dative | lugu | lugovima / luzima |
accusative | lug | lugove |
vocative | luže | lugovi / luzi |
locative | lugu | lugovima / luzima |
instrumental | lugom | lugovima / luzima |
Further reading edit
- “lug” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laugō ("soap, lye").
Noun edit
lȗg m (Cyrillic spelling лу̑г)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “lug” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laugō ("soap, lye").
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lūg m inan
Inflection edit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | ||
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nominative | lúg | |
genitive | lúga | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
lúg | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
lúgu | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
lúgom |
Further reading edit
- “lug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Somali edit
Etymology edit
Cognates include Jiiddu loho.[1]
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lug ?
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Sumerian edit
Romanization edit
lug
- Romanization of 𒇻 (lug)
Yola edit
Noun edit
lug
- Alternative form of lhug
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
- Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;
- The weight of the play fell into the hollow;
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 54