different between turg vs tug

English

Alternative forms

• ’turg

Etymology

Shortened from dramaturg.

Noun

turg (plural turgs)

1. (informal) A dramaturge
   • 2003, Liz Engelman and Michael Bigelow Dixon, “What Makes a Turg Tick: Two Dramaturgs Discuss What They Like About Their Profession and Why They Do It”, in Theater Topics, ISSN: 1054-8378, Volume 13, Number 1 (March 2003), pages 93–99.

Anagrams

• GURT, gurt, trug

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic ????? (t?rg?, “trade, trading, commerce; (trade) square”).

Noun

turg (genitive turu, partitive turgu)

1. market place

Declension

References

• Raimo Raag. (2015), A Criterion for Old Age, section “Word stems in modern standard Estonian of Old East Slavic origin”, in ??????? ?? ???? ????????? ???????: Essays in Honour of Irina Lysén.

English

Etymology

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tee, tow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?g, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

tug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)

1. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort

   The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

2. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly

   He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

3. (transitive) to tow by tugboat

Derived terms

• tug down
• tug up

Translations

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

1. A sudden powerful pull.

   • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
2. (nautical) A tugboat.
3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.

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4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
5. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
6. (slang) An act of masturbation.

   He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

Derived terms

• tug of war

Translations

Anagrams

• GUT, UTG, gut

Elfdalian

Noun

tug n

1. train

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Icelandic

Noun

tug

1. inflection of tugur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tug

1. past tense of thoir

Usage notes

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thug.