Wiktionary

rug

See also: rúg and rüg

English edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), related to English rag and rough. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: rŭg, IPA(key): /ɹʌɡ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun edit

rug (plural rugs)

  1. A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
  2. (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
    • 1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254:
      They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
    • 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297:
      Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
    • 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,
      My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″
    • 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books
      She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.
    • 1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22:
      He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
  3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]
  4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
  5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
  6. A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
  7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
  8. (slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
  9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
  10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
  11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]
  12. (US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.
    • 1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:
      We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.

Usage notes edit

  • (partial floor covering): The terms rug and carpet are not precise synonyms: a rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or a large area of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

wig — see wig

Verb edit

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

  1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
    • 1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45:
      It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
  2. (Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

rug (comparative more rug, superlative most rug)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) snug; cosy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch rug.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

  1. (plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
  2. (plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge

Aromanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

rug m (plural rudz)

  1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush
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Etymology 2 edit

Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.

Noun edit

rug m (plural rudz)

  1. funeral pyre

Danish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun edit

rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)

  1. rye (Secale cereale)

Verb edit

rug

  1. imperative of ruge

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)

  1. back, backside
  2. (geology) ridge
  3. (Netherlands, historical) Short for rooie rug; a thousand-guilders banknote
  4. (Netherlands) thousand euro (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Afrikaans: rug
  • Jersey Dutch: rœx
  • Negerhollands: rugge, rigi, rege

Elfdalian edit

Noun edit

rug m

  1. rye (Secale cereale)

Inflection edit

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Faroese edit

Noun edit

rug

  1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

rug

  1. analytic past indicative of beir

References edit

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

Manx edit

Etymology edit

From ro·uccai, suppletive augmented form of beirid. Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic rugadh.

Verb edit

rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)

  1. to bear (give birth to)

Synonyms edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun edit

rug m (definite singular rugen)

  1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms edit

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Cognate with Faroese rugur, Icelandic rúgur, Swedish råg, Danish rug, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, and English rye.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /rʊː(ɡ)/, /rʉː(ɡ)/
  • (North Gudbrand Valley) IPA(key): [ruɡ]
  • Hyphenation: rùg

Noun edit

rug m (definite singular rugen)

  1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms edit

References edit

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Learned borrowing from Latin rūga.

Noun edit

rug m inan

  1. (obsolete) crease, notch, wrinkle
    Synonyms: bruzda, fałda, karb, zmarszczka
Declension edit
Declension of rug
singular plural
nominative rug rugi
genitive rugu rugów
dative rugowi rugom
accusative rug rugi
instrumental rugiem rugami
locative rugu rugach
vocative rugu rugi

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Old Polish rug.

Noun edit

rug m inan

  1. (historical, obsolete) judicial inquiry
    Synonyms: dochodzenie, śledztwo, rugi
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Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

rug f

  1. genitive plural of ruga

Further reading edit

Romagnol edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈɾuːɡ]

Noun edit

rug m pl

  1. plural of rôg

References edit

Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 514

Romanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited.

Noun edit

rug n (plural ruguri)

  1. pyre
Declension edit
Declension of rug
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) rug rugul (niște) ruguri rugurile
genitive/dative (unui) rug rugului (unor) ruguri rugurilor
vocative rugule rugurilor

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negură.

Noun edit

rug m (plural rugi)

  1. bramble
  2. dog rose
  3. blackberry
Declension edit
Declension of rug
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) rug rugul (niște) rugi rugii
genitive/dative (unui) rug rugului (unor) rugi rugilor
vocative rugule rugilor
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit

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Scottish Gaelic edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

rug

  1. past of beir
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