different between sprog vs prog

English

Etymology

1940s, originally service slang. Perhaps from obsolete sprag (“lively young man”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: spr?g, IPA^(key): /sp???/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /spr??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /spr??/

Noun

sprog (countable and uncountable, plural sprogs)

1. (Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, informal, humorous) A child.
   • 1984 September 13, Donald Gould, Forum: Suck it and see, page 54,

     To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies.

   • 2008, Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, & Inheritance Tax For Dummies, UK Edition, unnumbered page,

     Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.

   • 2010, Brett Atkinson, Sarah Bennett, Scott Kennedy, New Zealand?s South Island, Lonely Planet, page 220,

     Kids will love the climbing wall and NZ?s highest vertical slide. If the sprogs get bored with reality, movie make-believe (p232) is right next door.

2. (Britain, military, RAF, slang, derogatory) A new recruit.
3. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Semen.
4. (countable, slang) A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.

Synonyms

• (child): ankle-biter, bairn, crib lizard, crotch fruit, kid, rug rat
• (semen): cum, jizz, spoof

Derived terms

• sproglet

Verb

sprog (third-person singular simple present sprogs, present participle sprogging, simple past and past participle sprogged)

1. (Britain, Australia, slang, humorous) To produce children.
   • 2007, Libby Purves, Love Songs and Lies, unnumbered page,

     You must have been terrified, it?s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.

   • 2008, Lucy Diamond, Over You, unnumbered page,

     ‘How?s it all going with your boyo in the valleys? Any plans for sprogging or vows or anything serious yet?’

   • 2009, Peter James, Dead Tomorrow, unnumbered page,

     ‘Women lose their sexual drive after they?ve sprogged,’ Norman Potting interjected.

2. (Australia, slang) To ejaculate, to come.

   Synonyms: spoof; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate

   • 2004, Kathryn Fox, Malicious Intent, Pan MacMillan Australia, unnumbered page,

     The kid was fathered by the same guy who sprogged into Debbie Finch?s throat.

Anagrams

• progs

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German spr?ke. Cognate to German Sprache, Dutch spraak, Norwegian språk, Old English spr?? and Swedish språk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spr????/, [?sb????w], [?sb???w?]

Noun

sprog n (singular definite sproget, plural indefinite sprog)

1. language

Inflection

Derived terms

• babytegnsprog
• billedsprog
• dagligsprog
• enhedsskriftsprog
• fagsprog
• fremmedsprog
• gruppesprog
• kodesprog
• kropssprog
• kunstsprog
• lokalsprog
• plansprog
• regionalsprog
• rigssprog
• røversprog
• skriftsprog
• standardsprog
• talesprog
• tegnsprog

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.