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See also: Appendix:Variations of "rug"

Translingual

Symbol

rug

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Roviana.

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English

Etymology

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”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), 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

Noun

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]
    • 1985 July 12, Martin Cropper, “Theatre: The Philanthropist”, in The Times, number 62,188, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
      The intervening years have been kind to Edward Fox and John Wells, who now assume the principal roles, in allowing them to keep their full complement of hair. Mr Fox shows his gratitude by using his rug as a prop, flopping it forward, Welsh-combing it back, letting it stand up on end as if from shock, while Mr Wells is content mostly to let his limply swathe his forehead.
  11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]
  12. (US, slang, ethnic slur) Ellipsis of 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

  • (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.

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Verb

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.
  3. Clipping of rug pull

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rug.

Pronunciation

Noun

rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

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

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

Alternative forms

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

  1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush
Synonyms
  • pilivuri, zigrã, mãcesh, bubzel

Etymology 2

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

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

  1. funeral pyre
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Etymology

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

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

  1. rye (Secale cereale)

Verb

rug

  1. imperative of ruge
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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. back, backside
  2. (geology) ridge
  3. (Netherlands, historical) ellipsis of rooie rug (“thousand-guilders banknote”)

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Noun

rug m

  1. rye (Secale cereale)

Inflection

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Faroese

Noun

rug

  1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

Irish

Manx

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Old English

Polish

Romagnol

Romanian

Scottish Gaelic

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