trog

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

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Short for troglodyte.

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.’

Origin unknown.

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.

• grot

From Dutch trog.

trog (plural trôe)

1. trough

From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, 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”).

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• Rhymes: -ɔx

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

1. trough
2. (geology) trench

• grot

trog

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

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

1. trough

• torg

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

• aahrog

• troh

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

• IPA^(key): /troɡ/, [troɣ]

trog m

1. trough

   Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.

   The pigs ate from the trough.

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