different between rugger vs pugger

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 1

pug +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

pugger (plural puggers)

1. (obsolete) A worker in a pugmill.

Etymology 2

Verb

pugger (third-person singular simple present puggers, present participle puggering, simple past and past participle puggered)

1. (obsolete) pucker
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:

     "Nor are we to cavil at the red pugger'd attire of the Turkey […] "

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

pugger

1. present of pugge