trog

See also: Trog and trög

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

Etymology 1

Short for troglodyte.

Noun

trog (plural trogs)

(slang, Britain) A hooligan, lout.
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage 2005, p. 253:
  ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Verb

trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

(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.

Anagrams

grot

Dutch

Etymology

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

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Rhymes: -ɔx

Noun

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

trough
(geology) trench

Anagrams

grot

German

Verb

trog

First-person singular preterite of trügen.
Third-person singular preterite of trügen.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

Noun

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

trough

Declension

declension of trog

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Anagrams

torg

Manx

Verb

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
to gather up
to rig up, construct, build
to elaborate
to input
to take
to invoke
to wind, winch
to put up
to breed
to rear, nurture, train (as child)
to arise
to pull in
to set in rows
to sing up
to harvest
to rally
to pick up
to freshen (of wind)
to contract (as disease)
to pick off

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trog	hrog	drog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

aahrog

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