trog

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See also: Trog, trög, and tròg

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Short for troglodyte.

Noun

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

Unknown.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trog.

Noun

trog (plural trôe)

  1. trough

Dutch

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Etymology

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

Noun

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

  1. trough
  2. (geology) trench

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Verb

trog

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse trog

Pronunciation

Noun

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

  1. trough

Declension

declension of trog
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trog trogið trog trogin
accusative trog trogið trog trogin
dative trogi troginu trogum trogunum
genitive trogs trogsins troga troganna

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish do·furgaib.

Verb

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

Mutation

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Historical inflection of trog
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 eit Trog Troget Trog Trogi
1901 troget (troge)
1917 troget troga, trogi
19382 – – – –
1981 eit trog troget trog troga
20122 (current) – – – –

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in 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

Anagrams

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

trog m

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

Declension

Declension of trog (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative trog trogas
accusative trog trogas
genitive troges troga
dative troge trogum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: trogh
  • → Irish: trach

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun

trog n

  1. trough

Declension

  Declension of trog (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trog trogit trog trogin
accusative trog trogit trog trogin
dative trogi troginu trogum trogunum
genitive trogs trogsins troga troganna

Descendants

References

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