trug

English

Etymology

Compare trough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun

trug (plural trugs)

1. (chiefly British) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
4. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
   • 1630, John Taylor, “The World Runs on Wheels”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet:

     the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […] many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down

Translations

A shallow basket

• Danish: kurv (da) c

Anagrams

• GURT, gurt, turg

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse trog.

Noun

trug n (singular definite truget, plural indefinite trug)

1. trough

Inflection

Declension of trug

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trug	truget	trug	trugene
genitive	trugs	trugets	trugs	trugenes

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /truːk/, [tʁuːk] (standard)

  • Audio:

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -uːk
• IPA^(key): /truːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Homophone: Trug (but /x/ is less common in this, so some speakers may distinguish)

Verb

trug

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tragen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trug m (definite singular trugen, indefinite plural trugar, definite plural trugane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of truge f