dug

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dŭg, IPA(key): /dʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ
  • Homophone: Doug

Verb

dug

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

Etymology 2

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (the female breast)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (to suckle), Swedish dägga (to suck), Old English dēon (to suckle). More at doe. es|Doug|lang=en}}

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
    c 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 5, Scene II
    He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.

Translations

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dǫgg (dew), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō (dew), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (smoke, haze). Cognate with German Tau (dew).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duɡ/, [d̥uɡ̊]

Noun

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

  1. dew

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dúkr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːɡ/, [d̥uːˀ]

Noun

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

  1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
  2. a piece of canvas or cloth
  3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)
Declension
Derived terms

References


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduɡ]

Verb

dug

  1. (transitive) to stick, insert, push in
    Synonym: illeszt
  2. (transitive) to hide, conceal
    Synonym: rejt
  3. (transitive, informal) to have sex
    Synonyms: szexel, kefél

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átdug
  • bedug
  • eldug
  • feldug
  • földug
  • kidug
  • ledug
  • megdug
  • odadug
  • összedug
  • rádug
  • visszadug

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga and duge

Scots

Alternative forms

  • duggie (diminutive)

Etymology

From Old English docga (hound, powerful breed of dog). Cognate with English dog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌɡ/

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. dog.

Verb

dug (third-person singular present dugs, present participle duggin, past duggit, past participle duggit)

  1. To stand up to; to outlast.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûːɡ/

Noun

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

  1. debt
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ. Cognated with Czech dlouhý.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûɡ/

Adjective

dȕg (definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī, Cyrillic spelling ду̏г)

  1. long
Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

dug

  1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
dug ddug nug unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

Noun

dug

  1. dog

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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