trog

See also: Trog and trög

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

Etymology 1

Short for troglodyte.

Noun

trog (plural trogs)

1. (slang, Britain) A hooligan, lout.
   • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage 2005, p. 253:

     ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Verb

trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

1. (slang) To walk laboriously; to trudge.
   • 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:

     So down Westwood Road I trogged, looking left, looking right, searching high and low for Slade Alley.

Anagrams

• grot

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trog.

Noun

trog (plural trôe)

1. trough

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Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, English trough, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔx

Noun

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

1. trough
2. (geology) trench

Anagrams

• grot

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German

Verb

trog

1. First-person singular preterite of trügen.
2. Third-person singular preterite of trügen.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

Noun

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

1. trough

Declension

declension of trog

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Anagrams

• torg

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Manx

Verb

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
2. to gather up
3. to rig up, construct, build
4. to elaborate
5. to input
6. to take
7. to invoke
8. to wind, winch
9. to put up
10. to breed
11. to rear, nurture, train (as child)
12. to arise
13. to pull in
14. to set in rows
15. to sing up
16. to harvest
17. to rally
18. to pick up
19. to freshen (of wind)
20. to contract (as disease)
21. to pick off

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trog	hrog	drog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• aahrog

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Old English

Alternative forms

• troh

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugaz. Related to Dutch trog, German Trog, Icelandic trog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /troɡ/, [troɣ]

Noun

trog m

1. trough

   Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.

   The pigs ate from the trough.

Declension

Declension of trog (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	trog	trogas
accusative	trog	trogas
genitive	troges	troga
dative	troge	trogum

Descendants

• Middle English: trogh
  • English: trough
  • Scots: troch, trouch