prog

See also: Prog, próg, and prog.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Adjective

prog (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of progressive.
   • 2003, Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos:

     Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves […]

Noun

prog (plural progs)

1. (informal, music) Progressive rock.

   He listens to a lot of prog.

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 […]

   • 2001, linux.redhat (Usenet):

     "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. (UK, university 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)

   • (Can we date this quote by Robert Browning and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     So long as he picked from the filth his prog.

2. (slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
3. (obsolete) A pointed instrument.

Verb

1. (obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
   • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a perfect artist in progging for money

   • (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gorp

---

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porgъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian próh, Polish próg, Czech práh, Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ, “doorpost”), Russian поро́г (poróg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɔk]

Noun

prog m ?

1. threshold (bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter)

Declension

Declension of prog

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	prog	proga	progi
Genitive	proga	progowu	progow
Dative	progoju	progoma	progam
Accusative	prog	proga	progi
Instrumental	progom	progoma	progami
Locative	progu	progoma	progach

Further reading

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “prog”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag