different between rug vs rugger

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin, compare dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), from Old Norse r?gg (“shagginess; tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *raww? (“long wool”), related to English rag and rough.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rug (plural rugs)

1. A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
2. (Britain, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
   • 1855, William Howitt, A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book, page 254,

     They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.

   • 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297,

     Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.

   • 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,

     My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.?

   • 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books

     She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.

   • 1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22,

     He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.

3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]

   • They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.

4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
6. A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
8. (slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]

Usage notes

• (partial floor covering): The terms rug and carpet are not precise synonyms: a rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or a large area of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Synonyms

• (small carpet): carpet, mat
• (wig): toupee, wig

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
   • 1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony (page 45)

     It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]

2. (Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Derived terms

• rug up

Adjective

rug (comparative more rug, superlative most rug)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) snug; cosy

Further reading

• rug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rug in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rug at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• GRU, GUR

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rœ?/

Noun

rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

1. (plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
2. (plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

Alternative forms

• rugu, arug, arugu

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush

Synonyms

• pilivuri, zigrã, mãcesh, bubzel

Etymology 2

Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.

Noun

rug m (plural rudz)

1. funeral pyre

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Verb

rug

1. imperative of ruge

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?x/
• Rhymes: -?x
• Hyphenation: rug

Noun

rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)

1. back, backside
2. (geology) ridge
3. (Netherlands) thousand euro

Derived terms

• heuvelrug
• rugborstel
• rugklacht
• rugpijn
• rugslag
• rugtas
• rugvin
• rugzak

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rug

Elfdalian

Noun

rug m

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese

Noun

rug

1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]

Verb

rug

1. past analytic of beir

Further reading

• "rug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “rug” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Etymology

From ro·uccai, suppletive augmented form of beirid.

Verb

rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)

1. to bear (give birth to)

Synonyms

• behr
• ymmyrk

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrug?yo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

Noun

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (as above)

Derived terms

• rugbrød

References

• “rug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruk/

Noun

rug f

1. genitive plural of ruga

Further reading

• rug in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited.

Noun

rug n (plural ruguri)

1. pyre

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?d?o- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negura.

Noun

rug m (plural rugi)

1. bramble
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

Synonyms

• m?ce?

Derived terms

• ruget

References

• rug in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?uk/

Verb

rug

1. past tense of beir

English

Etymology

From rugby (“Rugby football”) +? -er (Oxford “-er”). Compare contemporary soccer, from Association football. Both words seem to have originated at the University of Oxford during the 1880s. See Oxford -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????/, (US) IPA^(key): /??????/
• Rhymes: -???(r)
• Hyphenation: rug?ger

Noun

rugger (countable and uncountable, plural ruggers)

1. (uncountable) rugby [from 1886]
2. (US) rugby player

Synonyms

• (player of rugby): rugby footballer, rugby player
• (sport): rugby, rugby football

Hypernyms

• (sport): football

Hyponyms

• (sport):, rugby sevens, rugby league, rugby union

Derived terms

• rugger bugger

See also

• soccer

Anagrams

• Gruger, regurg

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rugger

1. present of rugge