different between trug vs trig

English

Etymology

Compare trough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

trug (plural trugs)

1. (chiefly Britain) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
4. (obsolete) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.

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5. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
   • 1630, John Taylor, "The World Runs on Wheels", in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet

     the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […] many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down

Translations

Anagrams

• GURT, gurt, turg

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse trog.

Noun

trug n (singular definite truget, plural indefinite trug)

1. trough

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tru?k/, [t?u?k] (standard)
  • Rhymes: -u?k
• IPA^(key): /tru?x/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Homophone: Trug (but /x/ is less common in this, so some speakers may distinguish)

Verb

trug

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of tragen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trug m (definite singular trugen, indefinite plural trugar, definite plural trugane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by truge f

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t???/, [t???????]
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (“loyal, faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“loyal, faithful, true”). Cognate with Old English tr?ewe (“faithful, loyal, true”). More at true.

Adjective

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Safe; secure.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
4. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
   • 1857, J. Rarey, "The Taming of Horses" in British Quarterly Review

     we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].

   • 1973, Newsweek, April 16

     The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.

5. (now chiefly dialectal) Active; clever.

Translations

Noun

trig (plural trigs)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

Etymology 2

Clipping of trigonometry.

Noun

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)

1. (uncountable) Trigonometry.
2. (surveying, countable, informal) A trigonometric point, trig point.

Etymology 3

See trigger.

Noun

trig (plural trigs)

1. (Britain) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

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2. The mark for players at skittles, etc.

Verb

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

1. (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

Etymology 4

Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

Verb

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

1. To fill; to stuff; to cram.

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Etymology 5

Clipping.

Noun

trig (plural trigs)

1. (medicine, informal) triglyceride

References

• trig in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Grit, girt, grit

Old English

Alternative forms

• tre?

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugaz, *trug?, *truh-, *trauh-, *trawj?, from Proto-Indo-European *drAuk(')- (“a type of vessel”). Akin to Old English tr?g (“trough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trij/

Noun

tri? n

1. a wooden board with a low rim, tray

Declension

Synonyms

• tr??
• trog