trug

trug

English

Etymology

Compare trough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌɡ/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun

trug (plural trugs)

1. (chiefly Britain) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
4. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
   • 1630, John Taylor, "The World Runs on Wheels", in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet

     the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […] many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down

Translations

A shallow basket

Danish: kurv (da) c

Anagrams

• GURT, gurt, turg

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse trog.

Noun

trug n (singular definite truget, plural indefinite trug)

1. trough

Inflection

Declension of trug

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trug	truget	trug	trugene
genitive	trugs	trugets	trugs	trugenes

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /truːk/, [tʁuːk] (standard)

  • Audio

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  • Rhymes: -uːk
• IPA^(key): /truːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Homophone: Trug (but /x/ is less common in this, so some speakers may distinguish)

Verb

trug

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tragen

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trug m (definite singular trugen, indefinite plural trugar, definite plural trugane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of truge f