cog
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒɡ, -ɔːɡ
Etymology 1
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From Middle English cogge, from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Norwegian kugg (“cog”), Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog, tooth”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare Dutch kogge (“cogboat”), German Kock), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”).
The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- 1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
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Verb
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- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Etymology 2
From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare German Kock (“cogboat”), Norwegian kugg (“cog (gear tooth)”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
Translations
Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of William Watson to this entry?)
Translations
Verb
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- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- I'll […] cog their hearts from them.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- to cog in a word
- (Can we date this quote by J. Dennis and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Fustian tragedies […] have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
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Etymology 4
From Old English cogge.
Alternative forms
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A small fishing boat.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
Back-formation from cogadh (“war”).
Verb
cog (present analytic cogann, future analytic cogfaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogtha)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cog | chog | gcog |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
Middle English
Noun
cog
- a ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng […].
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Back-formation from cogadh (“war, fighting”).
Verb
cog (past chog, future cogaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogte)
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
cog f (plural cogau)
Usage notes
- Cog is usually found preceded by the definite article, y gog.
Synonyms
- (cuckoo): cwcw
Mutation
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