different between lug vs slug

English

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which is from similar Scandinavian sources.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: l?g, IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lug (plural lugs)

1. The act of hauling or dragging.

2. That which is hauled or dragged.

3. Anything that moves slowly.

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4. A lug nut.

   Synonym: lug nut

5. (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
6. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
7. A fool, a large man.

   Synonym: big lug

8. (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.

9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.

11. (Britain, dialect) A rod or pole.

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12. (Britain, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹?₂ feet.

    Synonym: rod

13. (nautical) A lugsail.
14. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
15. A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
16. A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
17. A lugworm.

Derived terms

• (protruding support): launch lug

Translations

Verb

lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)

1. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

   • c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, A Thought

     They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.

2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.

3. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
4. (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

Derived terms

• luggage

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]

Anagrams

• Gul

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lucht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœ?/

Noun

lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)

1. air

Usage notes

The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lug(?), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian li?gas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German sl?ch (“gulf, abyss”).

Noun

lug m (indefinite plural lugje, definite singular lugu, definite plural lugjet)

1. trough, (water) channel, spillway
2. groove (especially in trees)
3. valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)

1. (mechanics) lug

Declension

Derived terms

• lug seoil (“lugsail”)

Further reading

• "lug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish luku.

Noun

lug

1. number

Primitive Irish

Romanization

lug

1. Romanization of ???

Scanian

Etymology

From Old Norse lok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????]

Noun

lug n

1. weed, unwanted plant

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?g?.

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. small forest, grove

   Synonyms: šumica, gaj

2. swamp forest

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Etymology 2

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. ash (fire residue)
2. lye

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lù?k/, /lú?k/

Noun

l?g m inan

1. lye

Inflection

Further reading

• “lug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Somali

Noun

lug ?

1. leg

Yola

Noun

lug

1. Alternative form of lhug

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?g, IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge, probably of Old Norse origin; compare dialectal Norwegian sluggje (“heavy, slow person”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18^th c.]
2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15^th c.]
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act IV Scene v^[1]:

     Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed.

3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 55,^[2]

     […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.

4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
7. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. [from 1920s]
8. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
10. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
11. (railways) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.
12. (television editing) A black screen.
14. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
15. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
16. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
17. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
18. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
    • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

      money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug

19. A ship that sails slowly.
    • 1666,Samuel Pepys, Diary entry 17 October 1666

      His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

Synonyms

• (a quantity of a drink): See also Thesaurus:drink

Derived terms

• black slug
• hump slug
• road slug
• sea slug
• slug line
• yard slug

Related terms

• lug
• sluggard

Translations

See also

• (gastropod): snail

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
3. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
5. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.

6. To make sluggish.

   • So little do we fear , you slug you

Derived terms

• slugabed

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then ultimately cognate with German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

1. A hard blow, usually with the fist. [from 1830s]

Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Derived terms

• slugging match
• slug it out

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “slug”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Guls, LUGs, lugs

Manx

Etymology

Cognate with Irish slog.

Verb

slug (verbal noun sluggey, past participle sluggit)

1. to swallow, swig, slug, guzzle, draw
2. to devour, gorge, gulp
3. to engulf

Mutation

Noun

slug m (genitive singular slug, plural sluggyn)

1. swallow, swig, draught

Mutation

Derived terms

• sluggag

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Adjective

slug

1. cunning

Declension

Related terms

• slughet

Yola

Etymology

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Verb

slug

1. to eat greedily

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN