rug

Origin uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin, compare dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess; tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), related to English rag and rough.

• enPR: rŭg, IPA^(key): /ɹʌɡ/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

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rug (plural rugs)

1. A partial covering for a floor. [1624]
2. (Britain, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. [1591]
   • 1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254,

     They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.

   • 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297,

     Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.

   • 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,

     My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″

   • 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books

     She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.

   • 1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22,

     He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.

3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. [1547]
   • Holinshed

     They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.

4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze. [1577]
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug. [1627]
6. A cloth covering for a horse. [1790]
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops. [1792]
8. (slang) The female pubic hair. [1893]
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece. [1940]
11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair. [1954]

• (partial floor covering): The terms rug and carpet are not precise synonyms: a rug covers part of the floor; a carpet covers most or a large area of the floor; a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

• (small carpet): carpet, mat
• (wig): toupee, wig

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

1. (Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

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• rug up

rug (comparative more rug, superlative most rug)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) snug; cosy

• rug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rug in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rug at OneLook Dictionary Search

• GRU

From Dutch rug.

• IPA^(key): /rœχ/

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rug (plural rûe or rûens, diminutive ruggie)

1. (plural chiefly rûe) back (rear of the body)
2. (plural chiefly rûens) hill; ridge

From Latin rubus. Compare Romanian rug.

• rugu, arug, arugu

rug m (plural rudz)

1. wild rose, raspberry bush, bramble bush

• pilivuri, zigrã, mãcesh, bubzel

Probably a semi-learned term or borrowing from Latin rogus, as with its Romanian cognate rug (or modeled after it). Less likely inherited.

rug m (plural rudz)

1. funeral pyre

From Old Danish rugh, from Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, English rye.

rug c (singular definite rugen, not used in plural form)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

rug

1. imperative of ruge

From Middle Dutch rugge, from Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

• IPA^(key): /rʏx/
• Rhymes: -ʏx
• Hyphenation: rug

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rug m (plural ruggen, diminutive ruggetje n or rugje n)

1. back
2. (geology) ridge

• heuvelrug
• rugborstel
• rugtas
• rugvin
• rugzak

• Afrikaans: rug

rug

1. accusative singular indefinite of rugur

From Old Irish ·ruc, prototonic form of ro·ucc, perfect tense of beirid.

• IPA^(key): [ɾˠʊɡ]

rug

1. past analytic of beir

• "rug" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “rug” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

rug (verbal noun ruggal, past participle ruggit)

1. to bear (give birth to)

• behr
• ymmyrk

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

• rugbrød

• “rug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse rugr, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-. Compare Danish rug, Swedish råg, Icelandic rúgur, Dutch rogge, German Roggen, English rye.

rug m (definite singular rugen)

1. rye (as above)

• rugbrød

• “rug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ruk/

rug

1. genitive plural of ruga

• rug in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin rogus, probably borrowed in the 19th century or semi-learned. The linguists Candrea and Tiktin believed it to be inherited, although this is less likely[1].

rug n (plural ruguri)

1. pyre

From Latin rubus (“bramble, briar”), from Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”). Compare Italian rovo, dialectal rogo. For the sound shift of Latin -b- to -g- in Romanian, compare neg, negura.

rug m (plural rugi)

1. bramble

• măceș

• ruget

• IPA^(key): /rˠuk/

rug

1. past tense of beir