chugging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʌɡɪŋ/

Verb

chugging

1. present participle and gerund of chug

Noun

chugging (plural chuggings)

1. The sound of something that chugs.
   • 1955 July, R. S. McNaught, “"Foreign" Engine Workings”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:

     There was a Thompson class "B1" in Birmingham New Street, and an ex-Great Eastern class "B12/3" in the Midland station at Leicester, where the contented chugging of its Westinghouse air-compressor struck an exotic note.

   • 1997, Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West, page 5:

     From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.