tug
See also: Tuğ
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tuggen, toggen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
Verb
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- (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort
- The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
- (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly
- He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
- (transitive) to tow by tugboat
Derived terms
Translations
to pull with great effort
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to pull repeatedly
to tow by tugboat
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Noun
tug (plural tugs)
- a sudden powerful pull
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
- 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (nautical) a tugboat
- (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (slang) An act of masturbation
- He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
Derived terms
Translations
sudden pull
tugboat — see tugboat
Anagrams
Elfdalian
Noun
tug n
Declension
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Scottish Gaelic
Verb
tug
Usage notes
- This is the dependent form, the basic form being thug.
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