trog

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Short for troglodyte.

trog (plural trogs)

1. (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
   • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 253:

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

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.

• trog off

• grot

From Dutch trog.

trog (plural trôe)

1. trough

From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, from Proto-West Germanic *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

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trog

1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

From Old Norse trog.

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

1. trough

• torg

From Old Irish do·furgaib.

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
2. to rig up, construct, build
3. to take

• IPA^(key): /troːɡ/

trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of trau
2. (pre-1938) alternative form of trau

• torg

• troh

From Proto-West Germanic *trog, 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.

Strong a-stem:

• ċilda trog
• ċildtrog
• lēactrog
• wīntrog

• Middle English: trogh
  • English: trough
  • Scots: troch, trouch
• → Irish: trach

• trug

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

trog n

1. trough

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “trog”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive