different between rugger vs drugger

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

English

Etymology

drug +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

drugger (plural druggers)

1. (obsolete) A druggist.
   • 1870, Harper's Magazine

     […] a rural citizen entered a druggist's shop and asked for ten cents' worth of magnesia. The drugger gave him some of Husband's magnesia, and labeled it as such. In half an hour the purchaser returned, and said he wanted ten cents' worth more. The drugger told him that he had given him a full dose. "I know that," replied the man; "I want this for my Wife!"

Anagrams

• grudger