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trog

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See also: Trog, tròg, tróg, trög, and trøg

English

Pronunciation

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.
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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

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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

More information singular, plural ...

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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 rig up, construct, build
  3. to take

Conjugation

More information Independent, Dependent ...

Whilst these forms are all possible, periphrastic constructions with jean are much more common.

Derived terms

  • aahrog
  • er-troggloo

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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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

More information singular, plural ...
  • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
  • Forms in [brackets] 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

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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

Strong a-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

  • ċilda trog
  • ċildtrog
  • lēactrog
  • wīntrog

Descendants

  • Middle English: trogh
  • → Irish: trach
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Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun

trog n

  1. trough

Declension

More information neuter, singular ...

Descendants

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “trog”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

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