dug

English

Etymology

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dŭg, IPA(key): /dʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ
  • Homophone: Doug

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.

Translations

Verb

dug

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dig

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō (“dew”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”). Cognate with German Tau (“dew”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duɡ/, [d̥uɡ̊]

Noun

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

  1. dew

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dúkr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːɡ/, [d̥uːˀ]

Noun

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

  1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
  2. a piece of canvas or cloth
  3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)
Declension
Derived terms

References

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduɡ]

Verb

dug

  1. (transitive) to insert, push in
  2. (transitive) to hide, conceal
  3. (transitive, informal) to have sex

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átdug
  • bedug
  • eldug
  • feldug
  • földug
  • kidug
  • ledug
  • megdug
  • odadug
  • összedug
  • rádug
  • visszadug

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga and duge

Scots

Alternative forms

  • duggie (diminutive)

Etymology

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌɡ/

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. dog.

Verb

dug (third-person singular present dugs, present participle duggin, past duggit, past participle duggit)

  1. To stand up to; to outlast.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûːɡ/

Noun

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

  1. debt
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ. Cognated with Czech dlouhý.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûɡ/

Adjective

dȕg (definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī, Cyrillic spelling ду̏г)

  1. long
Declension
positive definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative dugi duga dugo
genitive dugog(a) duge dugog(a)
dative dugom(u/e) dugoj dugom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate		 dugi
dugog(a)		 dugu dugo
vocative dugi duga dugo
locative dugom(e/u) dugoj dugom(e/u)
instrumental dugim dugom dugim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative dugi duge duga
genitive dugih dugih dugih
dative dugim(a) dugim(a) dugim(a)
accusative duge duge duga
vocative dugi duge duga
locative dugim(a) dugim(a) dugim(a)
instrumental dugim(a) dugim(a) dugim(a)
comparative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative duži duža duže
genitive dužeg(a) duže dužeg(a)
dative dužem(u) dužoj dužem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate		 duži
dužeg(a)		 dužu duže
vocative duži duža duže
locative dužem(u) dužoj dužem(u)
instrumental dužim dužom dužim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative duži duže duža
genitive dužih dužih dužih
dative dužim(a) dužim(a) dužim(a)
accusative duže duže duža
vocative duži duže duža
locative dužim(a) dužim(a) dužim(a)
instrumental dužim(a) dužim(a) dužim(a)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

dug

  1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dug ddug nug unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

Noun

dug

  1. dog

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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