different between vagrancy vs prog

English

Etymology

vagrant +? -cy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve????ns?/

Noun

vagrancy (countable and uncountable, plural vagrancies)

1. the state of being a vagrant

Translations

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.