different between rugger vs lugger

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

Composed in English of lug +? -er. Attested since the early 17th century.

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
2. One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
3. (slang, Australia, US) A conman. [from 20th century]
4. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

   Synonyms: picker-up, roper, runner, steerer

   • 2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned (page 187)

     An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.

Etymology 2

Likely from lugsail,, but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.

Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of laggar falcon, from Hindi ????? (laggar).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

References

Anagrams

• glurge, gurgle

Danish

Noun

lugger c (singular definite luggeren, plural indefinite luggere)

1. lugger

References

• “lugger” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lugger

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggere, definite plural luggerne)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lugger” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English lugger

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggerar, definite plural luggerane)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.