different between prog vs grog

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Adjective

prog (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of progressive.

Noun

prog (plural progs)

1. (informal, music) Progressive rock.

2. (computing, informal) A program.
   • 2001, "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp (on newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk)

     […] is there some way to connect to my new comp so I can transfer some of the software progs […]

   • "Yoda", How do I get progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?

   • 2003, "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups? (on newsgroup microsoft.public.win98.apps)

     I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.

3. (Britain, college slang, dated) A proctor.
4. (informal, politics) A progressive.

Derived terms

• prog-like

Etymology 2

A variant of proke.

Noun

prog (countable and uncountable, plural progs)

1. (slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Molly Mog

     O nephew! your grief is but folly;
     ?In town you may find better prog

   • 1822, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall - Dolph Heyliger

     Let's see what prog we have for supper; the kettle has boiled long enough; my stomach cries cupboard […]

   • 1864, Robert Browning, Too Late

     So long as he picked from the filth his prog.

2. (slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
3. (obsolete) A pointed instrument.

Verb

prog (third-person singular simple present progs, present participle progging, simple past and past participle progged)

1. (obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.

   • a perfect artist in progging for money

   • 1788, Edmund Burke, Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings

     I have been endeavouring to prog for you.

2. (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

3. (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.

Anagrams

• gorp

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porg?. Cognate with Upper Sorbian próh, Polish próg, Czech práh, Old Church Slavonic ????? (prag?, “doorpost”), Russian ?????? (poróg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pr?k]

Noun

prog m

1. threshold (bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter)

Declension

Further reading

• prog in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

English

Etymology

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

grog (countable and uncountable, plural grogs)

1. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
2. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
3. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
4. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
5. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

   Synonyms: chamotte, firesand

Derived terms

• groggery
• groggy
• grogshop

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: grogue

Translations

Further reading

• grog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• gorg

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

grog m (plural grogs)

1. grog (drink made from rum)

Further reading

• “grog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French grog.

Noun

grog n (plural groguri)

1. grog

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro??/

Adjective

grog

1. Soft mutation of crog.

Mutation