lugn.¹

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s lugge, 1700s–1800s lugg.

Etymology: Of obscure etymology: there is no clear affinity of sense with lug v. or log n.¹

Now dialect.

1. A long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree. (See also log n.¹ 1d.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.

stingc725

stakec893

sowelc900

tree971

rungOE

shaftc1000

staffc1000

stockc1000

poleOE

spritOE

luga1250

lever1297

stanga1300

perchc1300

raftc1330

sheltbeam1336

stower1371

palea1382

spar1388

spire1392

perk1396

ragged staff1397

peela1400

slot1399

plantc1400

heck-stower1401

sparkin1408

cammockc1425

sallow stakec1440

spoke1467

perk treec1480

yard1480

bode1483

spit1485

bolm1513

gada1535

ruttock1542

stob1550

blade1558

wattle1570

bamboo1598

loggat1600

barling1611

sparret1632

picket1687

tringle1706

sprund1736

lug-pole1773

polting lug1789

baton1801

stuckin1809

rack-pin1821

picket-pin1844

I-iron1874

pricker1875

stag1881

podger1888

window pole1888

verge1897

sallow pole1898

lat1899

swizzle-stick1962

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1609 An evereuch man is widh me wrodh, An me mid stone and lugge threteth.

1447 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 88 It. to Iohn Styvor makyng of to baner luggus..iiij^d.

1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 26^v And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.

1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. M1^v These sides are fitly made of inch-board, or of a cleaft Lug of Withie or other wood.

1794 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset 68 Covering the same with strong lugs or poles.

1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 441 In Herefordshire the ordinary mode of gathering the fruit is by sending men to beat the trees with long slender poles or rods,..these poles are provincially termed ‘polting lugs’.

2. A measure

a. of length: a pole or perch, varying according to local custom; usually of 16½ feet, sometimes of 15, 18, 20, or 21 feet (? = great lug in quot. 1623).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > rod, pole, or perch

yard900

roodOE

perchc1300

rodc1380

fall1388

goad1391

polea1500

lug1562

farthing1602

land-pole1603

gad1706

virgate1772

perk1825

esperduct1866

gad-stick1866

1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §11 What Wages every Woorck~man..shall take..for ditching..by the Rodd, Perche, Lugg, Yard [etc.].

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X5^v For the large leape, which Debon did compell Coulin to make, being eight lugs of grownd.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. iv. 52 Sixteen Foote ½ make a Pearch, Pole, or Lug.

1623 Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 73 I paid..eight pounds ster: for every great Lugg of the playn worck of the town wall.

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 214 [He] followed the Apparition about Ten Lugs (that is Poles) further into the Copse.

1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 91 This [channel] was brought down..about 20 lug below the Bridge.

1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 268 A Lug..is of three lengths in this county: 15, 18, and 16½ feet.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lug..in Gloucestershire, a land-measure of six yards.

b. of surface: a square pole or perch; †acre by lug = lug-acre n. at Compounds.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific

stang1326

acre by lug1602

lug-acre1635

Welsh acre1675

plantation acre1705

Cheshire acre1808

geld-acre1880

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > square rod, pole, or perch

falla1242

percha1398

rood?c1450

rod?a1560

pole1637

pole square1707

lug1727

1602 Burford Reg. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist.: Var. Coll. I. 164 Mowinge of barley for every acre by lugge not above v^d.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Acre, a Measure of Land, consisting of..an hundred and sixty square Lug or Perch of Land.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 115 He had inclosed with a hedge about four lug of the land.

1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Hereford 31 One standard is left to each forty-nine square yards, here called a lugg.

1845 Morning Chron. 22 Nov. 5/2 I have seen a sack [of potatoes] a lug on some land,—that is 160 sacks per acre.

1885 Berks. Vicar in Standard 17 Aug. 2/2 Allotments of twenty luggs each (i.e. one-eighth of an acre).

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations:

† lug-acre n. Obsolete an acre based on that value of the pole or perch to which the name lug was locally applied.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific

stang1326

acre by lug1602

lug-acre1635

Welsh acre1675

plantation acre1705

Cheshire acre1808

geld-acre1880

1635 Burford Reg. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 169 Wages... For reaping and binding of wheate..for every lugg aker not above ij^s. vj^d.

† lug-fall n. Obsolete the length of a lug; a pole or perch.

ΚΠ

1863 J. Scott Common Bench Rep. XII. 91 [Somerset Law Case.] The right..to enter..upon a part or strip, to wit, a lug fall [margin, A perch] of the said close.

lug-pole n. U.S. = sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch

boughc1000

limbOE

brancha1300

trainc1390

grain1513

palm1559

arm1579

stem1584

lug-pole1773

hag wood1804

hag1808

tree branch1851

rame1858

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.

stingc725

stakec893

sowelc900

tree971

rungOE

shaftc1000

staffc1000

stockc1000

poleOE

spritOE

luga1250

lever1297

stanga1300

perchc1300

raftc1330

sheltbeam1336

stower1371

palea1382

spar1388

spire1392

perk1396

ragged staff1397

peela1400

slot1399

plantc1400

heck-stower1401

sparkin1408

cammockc1425

sallow stakec1440

spoke1467

perk treec1480

yard1480

bode1483

spit1485

bolm1513

gada1535

ruttock1542

stob1550

blade1558

wattle1570

bamboo1598

loggat1600

barling1611

sparret1632

picket1687

tringle1706

sprund1736

lug-pole1773

polting lug1789

baton1801

stuckin1809

rack-pin1821

picket-pin1844

I-iron1874

pricker1875

stag1881

podger1888

window pole1888

verge1897

sallow pole1898

lat1899

swizzle-stick1962

1773 Mass. Gaz. 4 Feb. (Suppl.) 1/2 A Defect in the Chimney, by Reason of the Wooden Lug-pole burning out.

1848 D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky (1870) v. 107 The tea kettle swung from a wooden ‘lug pole’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

lugn.²

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/, Scottish English

/lʌɡ/

Forms: Also (1500s Scottish louge), 1500s–1600s lugg(e.

Etymology: Of obscure etymology. As a synonym of ear , it first appears early in the 16th cent., and in colloquial Scots use has entirely superseded the older word. Presumably this application is a transferred use of a word that existed earlier with some other meaning. It is possible that the sense ‘ear-flap of a cap’, which is the earliest represented in our quots., may really be prior to the sense ‘ear’; for similar transferences of words from parts of clothing to the parts of the body covered, compare breech , crown , sole . If so, the word may perhaps be of Scandinavian origin, with a general sense of ‘something that can be pulled or laid hold of’, specialized differently in Swedish lugg forelock, with which compare English dialect (Sheffield, North Derbyshire, etc.) ‘to pull (somebody's) lugs’, meaning not as in Scotland, the ears, but the hair. (See lug v.)

Chiefly Scottish and northern.

1. One of the flaps or lappets of a cap or bonnet, covering the ears.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > part which covers ears

lug1495

oreillet1548

ear1579

earpiece1653

ear lappet1670

ear flap1823

ear guard1842

ear tab1855

ear muff1859

1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 225 Item, fra Henry Cant, ij cappis wyth luggis; price xxxvjs.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Euyrie scheiphird hed ane horne spune in the lug of there bonet.

1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1797) 35 He has a bee in his bannet lug.

1822 Goldie Poems 115 (E.D.D.) Cock yer bonnet hie, An' frae its lug let tartans flee.

a. = ear n.¹ 1, 2 Now colloquial or jocular.By the 19th cent. it had become the only word in use in Scottish, ear having become obsolete except in combination (though it is now standard). English writers of 16–17th centuries use lug as a slang or jocular synonym (see quots. 1592, 1631, and cf. 2b).

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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > [noun]

earOE

lug1507

1507 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 437 That na craftis~men by hidis bot as the law requires, that is to say, the louge and the horne elik lang.

1515 Edinb. Counc. Rec. in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxii. 297 To be scurgeit to the gallows and thair his lug takkit to the beame.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 50 Kyng midas gat tua asse luggis on his hede be cause of his auereis.

1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 109 Sathan in ȝour knauish luggis bleu.

1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. C ^v Then the Gentlewoman let loose his eares, and let slip his head, and away went he home with his bloody lugges.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii. 89 in Wks. II A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a Pillory.

1659 J. Shirley Contention Ajax & Ulisses i If you have a mind to lose one of your lugs,..Talk on.

1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence xiii I..Roun'd in his lug, that there was a Poor country Kate.

1786 R. Burns Poems 22 Let other Poets..grate our lug.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xii. 289 Dinna blaw in folks lugs that gate.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 52 I heard the balls whistle in our lugs.

1908 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. I. vii. 270 Lang an last, da laird grippit him be da lug.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 28 Give 'im a clip under the lug!

1922 Banffshire Jrnl. 26 Sept. 6 An' hame-brewn sets th' lugs a crackin'.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 187 Has the wrong sow by the lug.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 254 Cowley's red lugs and Adam's apple in the door of the sheriff's office.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 500 The snare drum! Lay yer lug till the groun.

†b. In other than Scottish use, sometimes taken in specialized meanings: (a) the lobe of the ear; (b) a large ugly ear. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > types of ear

lug1602

prick ears1641

cauliflower ear1909

thick ear1909

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > flap or lobe

lapc1000

ear-lapOE

list1530

lippet1598

lug1602

lappet1609

handle1615

libbet1627

auricle1650

flip-flop1661

pinna1682

helix1684

lobe1719

earlobea1785

ear flap1810

leaf1819

shell1831

pavilion1842

ear bud1953

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv. 2232 Like a great swine by his long leane eard lugges.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Le mol de l'oreille, the lug or list of th' eare.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis viii. 102 The prominency of our Eares serves also for a defence [etc.]..; all which commodities our mickle-wise mothers defraud us of by their nice dislike of Lugs, as they call them in reproach, and Prick-eares.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lug, the tip of the Ear.

1764 K. O'Hara Midas 60 Dare you think your clumsey lugs [printed lungs] so proper to decide, as The delicate ears of Justice Midas?

c. In phrases similar to those at ear n.¹ Also (figurative) to get one's lug in one's loof, to be severely taken to task; by the lug and the horn, by main force; to hang by the lug of, to keep a firm hold of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > cling to

cling1582

hug1649

to hang by the lug ofa1652

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > be rebuked or scolded

to hear of it1598

to get on (also upon) the finger ends1693

to get one's lug in one's loof1744

to get wrong1803

to catch or get Jesse1839

to come in for it1841

to get hell1851

to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916

to have a strip torn off1940

a1652 R. Brome Madd Couple Well Matcht iii. i, in Wks. (1873) I. 47 You..were found by my servants at Luggs with your brace of Corps bearers.

a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1708) 54 Since the Cause is put in his Hand, ye have ay good Reason to hing by the Lug of it.

1744 A. Smith in J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 481 I shall get my lug in my lufe, as we say, for what I have written.

1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 300 The poor Brutes..cock'd their Lugs when they came in sight of Maryburgh.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xx. 291 We carried them by the lug and the horn before a justice of peace.

1883 Thomson Leddy May 109 (E.D.D.) Up in debt owre the lugs, he is happy for a'.

3. An object resembling the external ear.

a. The handle of a pitcher, etc. Also technical in various uses, denoting an appendage by which an object may be lifted or suspended; cf. ear n.¹ 7a, 7b, 10.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > handle

lug1624

stouk1674

1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 151 One copper pan with 2 lugges.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlv. 371 Instructors of Children, shake the Heads of their Disciples, (as one would do a Pot in holding it by the Lugs).

1796 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 2) II. Suppl. 51 Sewing on one old lug or flap..0. 0. 6.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 220 The lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and one o' the lugs.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 510 That, when they ‘pree’ or examine a corner or lug of their nets, they may find it glitter with the silvery sheen of the fish.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lugs, the ears of a bomb-shell, to which the hooks are applied in lifting it.

1871 C. H. Owen Mod. Artillery 98 There are three natures of mortar shells..the two higher natures have either lugs or lewis holes.

1881 C. Whitehead Hops 69 A lug or ear is left on each side of the mouth of the pocket.

1895 Month Sept. 53 Its [the haddock's] head had been cut off, and it hung by the lug, or ear.

b. = ear n.¹ 11.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts

neck?a1425

buttc1425

cheek1487

wing1577

face1601

ear1678

wood1683

strig1703

thumb-piece1760

jaws1789

crown1796

lug1833

sprig1835

point angle1869

bulb1885

nosepiece1983

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 215 In the centre of this fulcrum are two projecting lugs, one on each side.

1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ ii. 16 The fork-shaped piece of wood that projects from the hanging end of the feeder [in the blowing-action], called the lug.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 33 A neat iron tank, with lugs to allow of its being screwed to a bench.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 262 The lugs of the barrels..should be oiled occasionally.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 39 Top~gallant yards are..fitted with an iron band and lug round the centre of the yard.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 271/2 The [bicycle] Frame is made of steel tubes, inserted at their points of junction into hollow stampings or castings of metal, known as ‘lugs’.

c. The side-wall (of a fireplace or other recess); a (chimney) corner.

ΚΠ

1786 R. Burns Poems 142 Frosty winds blaw..Ben to the chimla lug.

1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet xii. 276 He likit the lug o' the kitchen fire best.

d. to put (or pile) on lugs, to put on airs. U.S. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)]

to make it goodlyc1325

bride?1533

affect1600

mimp1673

to give oneself airs1701

fal-lal1818

pose1840

posturize1850

attitudinize1864

primp1875

posture1877

lardy-dardy1887

to put (or pile) on lugs1889

la-di-da1901

profile1970

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)]

to make it goodlyc1325

usurpc1400

to take state upon one1597

to come over ——1600

to gentilize it1607

to state it1625

to give oneself airs1701

to put on airs1715

to mount (also ride) the high horse1782

to put on (the) dog1865

to get (also have) notions1866

to put on side1870

to have a roll on1881

to put (or pile) on lugs1889

side1890

to put on the Ritz1921

1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 xvii. 188 If you notice me..piling on any lugs..you just bump me down hard.

1896 G. Ade Artie vi. 54 The family did n't put on no such lugs in them days.

1903 A. Bennett Leonora iv. 106 American women..put on too much lugs, at any rate for an Englishman.

1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 15 Sept. 12 Dr. Hall puts on no ‘lugs’, and is not above sitting on a cracker barrel in a country grocery for a chat with old acquaintances.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. 326 Oh, the lugs he puts on—belted coat, and piqué collar.

e. A demand for borrowed or exacted money. Esp. in to put the lug on, to extort, to put pressure on. U.S. slang.

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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > pressurize

to put (also bring, exert) pressure on1853

squeeze1888

pressure1911

high-pressure1925

to put the lug on1929

to put the squeeze on1941

pressurize1945

to turn the heat on1957

to lean on1960

the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [noun] > demand for borrowed money

lug1929

1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Aug. 73/2 Why do you not put the lug on him?

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 84/2 Out on the lug, engaged in begging racket.

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 93/1 Put the lug on, to borrow; to beat up a racketeer with blackjack or brass knuckles for muscling in on forbidden territory.

1936 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 15 Oct. 6/1 Indiana uses the ‘Lug’.

1938 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 14 Feb. 1/6 The Democratic organization's lug on all city and county employees—for its campaign fund..has been started.

1940 Topeka (Kansas) State Jrnl. 26 Mar. 1/8 Shakedowns in Topeka are known to have ranged from $20 to $50 monthly, depending on the amount of illegal business done by the individuals on whom the lug was put.

1973 M. Truman Harry S. Truman vii. 129 My father also knew, from his inside contacts with Missouri Democrats, that the governor..was ‘putting the lug’ (to use Missouri terminology) on state employees to contribute to his campaign fund.

4. Tobacco trade (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 175 An eminent tobacco manufacturer of Richmond has offered the inhabitants of this district to take all of their tobacco, (lugs included) at $10 a hundred.

1851 Southern Planter (Richmond, Va.) June 192/1 We quote lugs $5 25 to $7.

1888 Paton & Dittmar in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 424/2 The leaves [of tobacco] are..sorted into qualities, such as ‘lugs’, or lower leaves, ‘firsts’ and ‘seconds’.

1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 442 The lowest grade was known as lugs as early as 1686.

5. Chiefly North American slang. Used contemptuously of a person: a lout, a sponger.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person

wormc825

wretchOE

thingOE

hinderlingc1175

harlot?c1225

mixa1300

villain1303

whelpc1330

wonnera1340

bismera1400

vilec1400

beasta1425

creaturec1450

dog bolt1465

fouling?a1475

drivel1478

shit1508

marmoset1523

mammeta1529

pilgarlica1529

pode1528

slave1537

slim1548

skit-brains?1553

grasshopper1556

scavenger1563

old boss1566

rag1566

shrub1566

ketterela1572

shake-rag1571

skybala1572

mumpsimus1573

smatchetc1582

squib1586

scabship1589

vassal1589

baboon1592

Gibraltar1593

polecat1593

mushroom1594

nodc1595

cittern-head1598

nit1598

stockfish1598

cum-twang1599

dish-wash1599

pettitoe1599

mustard-token1600

viliaco1600

cargo1602

stump1602

snotty-nose1604

sprat1605

wormling1605

brock1607

dogfly?1611

shag-rag1611

shack-rag1612

thrum1612

rabbita1616

fitchock1616

unworthy1616

baseling1618

shag1620

glow-worm1624

snip1633

the son of a worm1633

grousea1637

shab1637

wormship1648

muckworm1649

whiffler1659

prig1679

rotten egg1686

prigster1688

begged fool1693

hang-dog1693

bugger1694

reptile1697

squinny1716

snool1718

ramscallion1734

footer1748

jackass1756

hallion1789

skite1790

rattlesnake1791

snot1809

mudworm1814

skunk1816

stirrah1816

spalpeen1817

nyaff1825

skin1825

weed1825

tiger1827

beggar1834

despicability1837

squirt1844

prawn1845

shake1846

white mouse1846

scurf1851

sweep1853

cockroach1856

bummer1857

medlar1859

cunt1860

shuck1862

missing link1863

schweinhund1871

creepa1876

bum1882

trashbag1886

tinhorn1887

snot-rag1888

rodent1889

whelpling1889

pie eatera1891

mess1891

schmuck1892

fucker1893

cheapskate1894

cocksucker1894

gutter-bird1896

perisher1896

skate1896

schmendrick1897

nyamps1900

ullage1901

fink1903

onion1904

punk1904

shitepoke1905

tinhorn sport1906

streeler1907

zob1911

stink1916

motherfucker1918

Oscar1918

shitass1918

shit-face1923

tripe-hound1923

gimp1924

garbage can1925

twerp1925

jughead1926

mong1926

fuck?1927

arsehole1928

dirty dog1928

gazook1928

muzzler1928

roach1929

shite1929

mook1930

lug1931

slug1931

woodchuck1931

crud1932

dip1932

bohunkus1933

lint-head1933

Nimrod1933

warb1933

fuck-piga1935

owl-hoot1934

pissant1935

poot1935

shmegegge1937

motheree1938

motorcycle1938

squiff1939

pendejo1940

snotnose1941

jerkface1942

slag1943

yuck1943

fuckface?1945

fuckhead?1945

shit-head1945

shite-hawk1948

schlub1950

asswipe1953

mother1955

weenie1956

hard-on1958

rass hole1959

schmucko1959

bitch ass1961

effer1961

lamer1961

arsewipe1962

asshole1962

butthole1962

cock1962

dipshit1963

motherfuck1964

dork1965

bumhole1967

mofo1967

tosspot1967

crudball1968

dipstick1968

douche1968

frickface1968

schlong1968

fuckwit1969

rassclaat1969

ass1970

wank1970

fecker1971

wanker1971

butt-fucker1972

slimeball1972

bloodclaat1973

fuckwad1974

mutha1974

suck1974

cocksuck1977

tosser1977

plank1981

sleazebag1981

spastic1981

dweeb1982

bumboclaat1983

dickwad1983

scuzzbag1983

sleazeball1983

butt-face1984

dickweed1984

saddie1985

butt plug1986

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

microcephalic1989

wankstain1990

sadster1992

buttmunch1993

fanny1995

jackhole1996

fassyhole1997

fannybaws2000

fassy2002

1931 Brevities (N.Y.) 19 Oct. 2/1 Is his only sin the fact that he was born a lug?

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 73/2 Lug, an incapable person who frequently borrows small sums of money.

1936 R. Chandler Black Mask June 24/1 The girl snapped at me: ‘Is this lug your partner?’

1952 Landfall 6 265 Now there's your sermon!.. No, no, no. These lugs would never understand.

1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxix. 284 The big fellows slip through my fingers, leaving some tough lug to take the rap.

1968 B. Turner Sex Trap xi. 98 ‘The other lug's at June's,’ Louis said.

1973 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 20 Mar. 2388/1 I will stand down when Mr. Speaker tells me to, not when you lugs tell me to.

1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 116 Any other names you can come up with?.. You don't owe these lugs anything.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

lug-cap n.

ΚΠ

1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 3/1 The black skull cap of silk or cotton, the common lug-cap [etc.].

b. (In sense 2.)

lug-drum n.

ΚΠ

1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 169 The whistlin' and the skirlin'..Rings through ane's lug-drum like a bullet.

lug-trumpet n.

ΚΠ

1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 832 Gin he uses a lug-trumpet.

c. (In sense 3.)

lug-end n.

ΚΠ

1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) App. 228 These plates must be perforated all over..to within about ¾ in. of the top, or lug-end.

lug-knee n.

ΚΠ

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 39 Plate XVI. and fig. 7, show the kind known as lug knees, the lugs being forged to the knee.

C2.

lug-bab n. Scottish an ear-drop (cf. bob n.¹ 3).

ΚΠ

1725 Cock-laird in Orpheus Caledonius Craig-claiths, and lug-babs, And rings twa or three.

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lug-bolt n. a cylindrical bolt, to which is welded a flat iron bar ( Cent. Dict.).

lug-chair n. an easy chair with side-pieces for the head.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > wing

wing-back1734

wing chair1775

lug-chair1901

wing-back chair1933

1901 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 347/1 Humped in his lug-chair, he would forget his duty.

lug-haul v. to pull by the ears.

ΚΠ

1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. vii. 201 Speak plain out, else I'll have thee lug-hauled, thou dwarf!

lughole n. dialect and colloquial ear-hole.

ΚΠ

1895 J. S. Fletcher Wonderful Wapentake 72 I'll come..and pelt thi lughoil for tha.

1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 96 Stuff thi lug-whols wi' woo.

1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 20 Is lugole, his ear.

1973 Times 25 Aug. 10/8 A session with Hello, Cheeky is like being exposed to some noisy, rude and unstoppable urchin who wins you round or at least averts a skull-shattering clout about the lughole simply because he will go on regardless.

lug-knot n. a knot of ribbons worn at the ear.

ΚΠ

17.. Muirland Willie xii, in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1788) I. 9 Our bride's maidens were na few, Wi' tap-knots, lug-knots, a' in blew.

lug-mark n. and v. = earmark n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on

betoken1382

signa1398

tokena1400

note1490

brand1587

countermark1611

signate1616

countersign1662

counter-note1665

lug-marka1699

check1928

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > branding or marking > ear-mark

earmarka1500

swallow fork1636

crop1653

halfpenny1658

gad1666

underkeel1677

lug-mark1802

underbit1837

sleepering1910

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > mark

stowa1642

gabel1715

smit1779

lug-mark1892

a1699 M. Shields in J. Howie Faithful Contendings Displayed (1780) 181 Imprisoning,..lugg-marking, banishing, and killing.

1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 191 They [lambs] receive..marks cut into the ear with a knife, designed lug mark.

1892 Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 28 Mar. 5/6 A Northumberland farmer..in identifying a heifer in dispute, stated that he lug-marked it.

1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 68 Every sentence has got the ‘Gallowa' lug-mark’ plain on it.

lug sole n. North American (see quot. 1961).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > sole > other

cork1463

crêpe sole1926

platform sole1938

wedge sole1939

platform1945

ripple sole1949

Vibram1950

lug sole1961

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug sole, a thick rubber sole that has deep indentations in a pattern designed to provide good footing and is used on sport and work shoes.

1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/2 (advt.) Heavy duty lug sole.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† lugn.³

Etymology: Compare lug v. (sense 3) and n.⁷; also Low German lug , Dutch log , slow, heavy, and log n.¹

Obsolete.

Something heavy and clumsy; in quot. applied to a massive bow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is

lug1545

monster1759

hulk1818

megatherium1850

potwalloper1896

dinosaur1975

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 3 The other [bowe] is a lugge slowe of cast, folowing the string, more sure for to last, then pleasaunt for to vse.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vastus arcus, a lugge, or mighty bigge bowe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

lugn.⁴

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/

Forms: Also 1600s lugg, 1600s, 1800s log.

Etymology: Compare lug n.³; also lurg n.

A large marine worm ( Arenicola marina) which burrows in the sands of the British coast and is much used for bait. Also in combinations, as lug-worm n. lug-fork n. (see quot. 1883).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Scoleciformia > family Arenicolidae > member of (lug-worms)

lug1602

squirrel-tail1653

sand-worm1776

treachet1787

lug-worm1813

lob-worm1854

sand lob1889

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 34^v The Lugge is a worme resembling the Tagworme or Angletouch, and lying in the Ose somewhat deepe, from whence the women digge them vp, and sell them to the Fishermen.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 277 All the above [fish]..are taken with lines baited with mussels and lug.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 409 Lug-worms are marine animals.

1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 315 A sufficient supply of ‘log’, or the worms found in the sea-sand.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 Lug Fork..used..for digging large Lugworms.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† lugn.⁵

Etymology: Of obscure origin. The modern Cornwall dialect has ‘Lugg, the undergrowth of weed in a field of corn’, but the identity of the word is doubtful.

Obsolete.

= flag n.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > irises

gladdona700

gladiolusc1000

flaga1387

fleur-de-lisc1390

regworta1400

yellow flag1526

lug1538

yellow lily1555

spurge-wort1562

swordling1562

garden flag1578

ireos1578

iris1578

stinking iris1578

water flag1578

yellow iris1578

fane1597

Florentine flower-de-luce1597

stinking gladdon1597

stinking sedge1597

velvet flower-de-luce1597

orris1609

sisyrinchium1629

luce1642

Florence iris1664

cuttle-haft1688

blue flag1732

snake's-head iris1739

flag-flower1753

roast-beef plant1800

shalder1825

flag-leaf1827

sweet sedge1839

poison flag1840

flagger1842

wedding-flower1869

mourning iris1874

flagon1878

Rocky Mountain iris1880

Florentine iris1882

Japanese iris1883

flag-lily1884

sword-flag1884

blue iris1886

thunderbolt1898

scorpion iris1900

1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Acorvm Lug.

1859 W. K. Clay Waterbeach 21 Lugs (flags)..made a coarse kind of hay for foddering their cattle in the winter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

lugn.⁶

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/

Etymology: Shortened < lug-sail n.

= lug-sail n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > lug-sail

lug-sail1677

lug1830

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 200 Up with the lugs.

1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 100 Sling a dipping lug ¹/ ₃ from the foremost yard arm; standing lug ¹/ ₄.

1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 9 She was jogging easily along under her fore and mizzen lugs and a small jib.

Compounds

C1. lug-rigged adj.

ΚΠ

1859 All Year Round 10 Dec. 148 My eye lights..on certain lug-rigged boats bobbing along the waves. These are fishing-boats.

C2.

lug-boat n. (see quot. 1867).

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lug-boat, the fine Deal boats which brave the severest weather; they are rigged as luggers, and dip the yards in tacking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lugn.⁷

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/

Etymology: < lug v.

a. The action of lugging; a rough pull.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the ear or side of the head > rough pull on the ear

luga1627

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling forcibly > an act of

ruga1500

tug?a1513

lug1897

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 All but a lugg byth'eare.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Pp3/2 To give one a lug, tirer l'Oreille à quêcun tout d' un coup.

1708 Brit. Apollo 4–9 June I'll soundly lug his ears... The Lug might more be fear'd by you.

1897 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug, the act of lugging; as, a hard lug... (Colloq.)

b. concrete (U.S.) (see quot. 1828).

ΚΠ

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug,..something heavy to be drawn or carried. (Vulgar.)

1897 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug,..that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug. (Colloq.)

Draft additions 1997

concrete. A thing which is or needs to be lugged, spec. a box or crate used for shipping fruit. Originally as lug box. North American.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > crate or packing-case > specific

egg-box1854

orange crate1889

soap-box1907

lug box1916

egg-crate1943

1916 B. S. Brown Mod. Fruit Marketing i. 15 If they do not care to take the regular packing box into the field, they supply what is known as the ‘lug’ box holding about 50 pounds each.

1921 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1196. 29 The lug box is used very extensively in the West for wine grapes. These lugs are..designed to hold from 20 to 40 pounds of grapes.

1929 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1579. 6 California avocadoes are shipped in three different sizes of crates known as the lug, the half lug, and the flat. The lug..holds about 2 dozen medium to large fruits.

1949 Los Angeles Times 2 July 5/4 It takes an hour for a lug of grapes to pass through the [precooling] tunnel.

1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxi. 246 You can buy fruit..for two bits a lug.

1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 July 9/2 A crate of lettuce and two lugs of tomatoes.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. iii. 58 There was a café across the street and outside it a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lugv.

Brit.

/lʌɡ/, U.S.

/ləɡ/

Forms: Also Middle English logge, Middle English–1700s lugg(e.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish lugga to pull a person's hair, < lugg forelock, also nap of cloth. Normally an Old Norse *lugg might be cognate with a verb *lǫggva < Old Germanic *lauwan, represented only by Middle Dutch lauwen, gelauwen to snatch at, seize.

1. transitive. To pull, give a pull to, to pull by (the ear, hair, etc.); to tease, worry, bait (a bear, bull, etc.). Obsolete exc. dialect.In South Yorkshire and the adjacent counties the most common use is in the sense ‘to pull the hair of (a person)’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > strike on specific part of body [verb (transitive)] > on the head > on the ear > give (the ear or hair) a rough pull

lug1390

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > bait [verb (transitive)]

sleatc1000

baita1300

luga1627

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 149 Be the chyn and be the cheke Sche luggeth him riht as hir liste.

1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles ii. 173 This lorell that ladde this loby awey..was ffelliche ylauȝte and luggid fful ylle.

1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. B.iii Leue thy railynge..Or by Iys Ish lug the by the swete eares.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) ii. sig. C4 Like a Common Garden Bull, I doe but take breath to be lug'd agen.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. x. 6) These also [sc. swine] when lugged..will hie to their home.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xx. 258 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) He was Lugg'd, and Tumbled by the Rabble.

1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 27 I'l have my Foot-men lug you, you Curr.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 16 To see a Strumpet tear A Cynicks Beard, and lug him by the Hair.

1716 A. Pope Corr. Nov. (1956) I. 373 Mr. Lintott lug'd the reins, stopt short, and broke out, ‘Well, Sir, how far have you gone?’

1775 A. Mackrabie Let. 23 Mar. in Francis Lett. (1901) I. 231 Some with Pincers pulling out their own Beards, and Lugging their Ears.

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 64 The dog..still fawns on the master who is lugging his ears.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 150 So saying, he lugged me by the ear, upon which I knocked him down for his trouble.

a. intransitive. To pull, tug. Of a horse: To press heavily on (the bit or reins).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > forcibly

tug1303

luga1375

a1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 350 Wiþ his teth anon He logged þat al in synder gon lasch.

1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 263 Lord than gif thay luggit.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. E. van Meteren in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 601 This huge and monstrous galliasse, wherein were contained three hundred slaues to lug at the oares.

1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 32 A whip awaits shirkers and shufflers Who slacken their pace, sick of lugging At what don't advance for their tugging.

1894 Crocker Educ. Horse 57 A colt thoroughly bitted with this bridle will never lug on the reins.

1894 Crocker Educ. Horse 133 A horse that lugs on the bit.

†b. To take a pull at (liquor, the breast). Also transitive. To pull at (the breast). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)]

drinkc1000

bite?c1225

touchc1384

supc1400

neck?1518

exhaust1555

lug1577

pipe?1578

to suck at1584

slup1598

reswill1614

imbibe1621

tug1698

absorb1821

tipple1824

inhaust1848

down1869

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xviii. i. 295 How our maltbugs lug at this liquor.

a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 467 When we have lugged the brest almost drie.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 969 That he might cease to be trouble~some to his mother, and not lie alwaies lugging at her brests.

1617 J. Moore Two-fold Cord ii. 43 in Mappe Mans Mortal. The brests of the world, (which we alwayes would be lugging).

c. To move about, along, heavily and slowly; to drag. rare now only technical.In South Yorkshire, etc. a comb is said to ‘lug’ when it meets with resistance in passing through the hair.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]

creepc1175

lugc1400

to hold (also keep) foot withc1438

crawlc1460

lounge?a1513

slug1565

drawl1566

draggle1577

fodge1581

snail1582

laggerc1620

slagger1622

snail1628

flod1674

delay1690

to drag one’s slow length along1711

soss1711

loiter1728

trail1744

sidle1781

soodle1821

linger1826

ooze1847

slope1851

laggard1864

dawdle1872

tiddle1882

oozle1958

pootle1973

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 443 As þat lyftande lome [sc. the Ark] luged aboute.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iv. i. 73 My flagging Soul flyes under her own pitch; Like Fowl in air too damp, and lugs along, As if she were a body in a body.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 446 When balls stick together in distributing they are said to lug.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 78 When rollers are tacky or stick together they are said to lug.

a. transitive. To pull along with violent effort; to drag, tug (something heavy). Also with adverbs (cf. 5). †to lug forth, absol. (nonce-use) = to lug out at sense 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > forcibly

halec1275

hurlc1305

ruga1325

windc1400

lugc1540

haul1581

pully-haul1839

snake1856

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11029 Þe Mirmydons,..Lepyn to þere lord, lugget hym away.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12323 The lady þat the lede lugget of þe toure.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cœnum Ineluctabile cœnum, out of whiche one can not lugge his legges.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xxxix. 115 They lugged me forth and caried me away.

1683 J. Dryden Epil. in Prol. to the King & Queen sig. B2 Think on your Souls; but by your lugging forth, It seems you know how little they are Worth.

1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse (1709) 12 There Sweat, there Strain, there lug the laborious Oar.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 229 I lugg'd this Money home to my Cave, and laid it up.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 291 The Turkish Admiral..caused his Janizaries..to lug along all the heavy Artillery, in Slings, on their Shoulders.

1782 C. A. Burney Jrnl. 15 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary Mr. Seward came up..lugging a chair into the middle of the room for me.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 332 She lugged from the fire a huge iron pot.

1898 A. Balfour To Arms viii. 90 I was lugged headlong up a steep stair.

b. colloquial with a hyperbolical suggestion of ponderousness in the object.

ΚΠ

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 260 It is..more convenient..than to lug a Galli-pot along with him.

1717 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 440 Allow me..to lug an old Busto behind you, & I shall be proud beyond expression.

1747 H. Walpole Let. 10 Apr. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 212 The Countess used to lug a half-length picture..behind her post-chaise.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 8 Boswell..succeeded in lugging him [Johnson] into the wilds of the Highlands.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure vii. 91 How can you expect that a man who is being lugged forward at all times..can have the nerves in good order.

1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 14 His wife lugged it [a marble god] down here with her yesterday.

4. figurative. To introduce in a forced manner, or irrelevantly; = drag v. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > intrude or insinuate

intruse?a1500

ingyre1513

shuffle1565

cog1570

foist1570

wind?1570

obtrudea1575

interject1588

filch?1589

intrude1592

inthrust1605

possess1606

suborna1620

inedge1632

interlopea1641

subintroducteda1641

subintroduce1643

to hedge in1664

insinuate1665

dodge1687

lug1721

assinuate1742

wriggle1766

fudge1776

intertrude1809

injeer1820

protrude1840

sniggle1881

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) App. 320 There is scarcely an enormity in the university, which you have not luggd~in.

1774 S. Crisp Let. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 303 In Raphael's School of Athens..I like his picture of the..Dwarf, which for fun and spite he lugg'd by head and shoulders into that fine composition.

1901 Scotsman 1 Mar. 5/3 Counsel for the other side had lugged in every thing he could to prejudice the case.

5. to lug out.

a. transitive. See main sense senses and out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > bring out

outbringeOE

forthbringc1000

upbringa1250

forthbearc1305

to lug out1723

out1907

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6663 Weghis of his aune Luggit hym out to þe laund.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 15 The Major lug'd out the Goods.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine vi Mr. Brock lugged out five guineas.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 58 The little fellow was obliged to lug out his sword.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 23 You land and lug out the tent.

figurative.1755 Barnaby Bright's New Jrnl. 3 I thought of..lugging out my florid style, which I keep by me for Holidays.1891 Speaker 2 May 532/2 The Quarterly reviewer also lugs out again that ‘very ancient and fish-like’ fallacy which distinguishes between duties and rights.

b. absol. or intransitive. To draw one's sword; to pull out money or a purse. Now only archaic. †Also figurative, To launch out in talk.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)]

spenec1175

spend1297

to do or make (the) cost(s)c1325

costc1384

to be at charge or at charges?1542

to be at cost?1548

to spend and be spent1611

disburse1615

to lug out1684

tap1712

part1864

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > use or fight with sword [verb (intransitive)] > draw sword

draw?1570

exhale1600

to lug out1684

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1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment They Caterwaul..Call Sons of Whores, and strike, but ne're lugg-out.

1700 Step to the Bath (ed. 2) 4 They call'd for a Bill, which was presently brought; out I lugg'd, and was going to Discharge, but [etc.].

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iv. 20 My poor uncle,..was obliged to lug out in his own defence.

1787 Minor iv. v. 214 I lugged out in the most feeling manner on my sad situation.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. i. 4 Put up both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman.

1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek I. ix. 287 If the patrons of art don't lug out handsomely to get..that picture ——.

1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke ix. 75 I..might have had more, had that young fool not lugged out at me.

†6. intransitive ? To draw swords (= to lug out at sense 5); or ? to tussle. Obsolete.

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1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. F^v Lug with him boy, honors in bloud best swim.

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单词	lug
释义	lugn.¹ Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s lugge, 1700s–1800s lugg. Etymology: Of obscure etymology: there is no clear affinity of sense with lug v. or log n.¹ Now dialect. 1. A long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree. (See also log n.¹ 1d.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc. stingc725 stakec893 sowelc900 tree971 rungOE shaftc1000 staffc1000 stockc1000 poleOE spritOE luga1250 lever1297 stanga1300 perchc1300 raftc1330 sheltbeam1336 stower1371 palea1382 spar1388 spire1392 perk1396 ragged staff1397 peela1400 slot1399 plantc1400 heck-stower1401 sparkin1408 cammockc1425 sallow stakec1440 spoke1467 perk treec1480 yard1480 bode1483 spit1485 bolm1513 gada1535 ruttock1542 stob1550 blade1558 wattle1570 bamboo1598 loggat1600 barling1611 sparret1632 picket1687 tringle1706 sprund1736 lug-pole1773 polting lug1789 baton1801 stuckin1809 rack-pin1821 picket-pin1844 I-iron1874 pricker1875 stag1881 podger1888 window pole1888 verge1897 sallow pole1898 lat1899 swizzle-stick1962 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1609 An evereuch man is widh me wrodh, An me mid stone and lugge threteth. 1447 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 88 It. to Iohn Styvor makyng of to baner luggus..iiij^d. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 26^v And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare. 1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. M1^v These sides are fitly made of inch-board, or of a cleaft Lug of Withie or other wood. 1794 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset 68 Covering the same with strong lugs or poles. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 441 In Herefordshire the ordinary mode of gathering the fruit is by sending men to beat the trees with long slender poles or rods,..these poles are provincially termed ‘polting lugs’. 2. A measure a. of length: a pole or perch, varying according to local custom; usually of 16½ feet, sometimes of 15, 18, 20, or 21 feet (? = great lug in quot. 1623). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > rod, pole, or perch yard900 roodOE perchc1300 rodc1380 fall1388 goad1391 polea1500 lug1562 farthing1602 land-pole1603 gad1706 virgate1772 perk1825 esperduct1866 gad-stick1866 1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §11 What Wages every Woorck~man..shall take..for ditching..by the Rodd, Perche, Lugg, Yard [etc.]. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X5^v For the large leape, which Debon did compell Coulin to make, being eight lugs of grownd. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. iv. 52 Sixteen Foote ½ make a Pearch, Pole, or Lug. 1623 Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 73 I paid..eight pounds ster: for every great Lugg of the playn worck of the town wall. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 214 [He] followed the Apparition about Ten Lugs (that is Poles) further into the Copse. 1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 91 This [channel] was brought down..about 20 lug below the Bridge. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 268 A Lug..is of three lengths in this county: 15, 18, and 16½ feet. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lug..in Gloucestershire, a land-measure of six yards. b. of surface: a square pole or perch; †acre by lug = lug-acre n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific stang1326 acre by lug1602 lug-acre1635 Welsh acre1675 plantation acre1705 Cheshire acre1808 geld-acre1880 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > square rod, pole, or perch falla1242 percha1398 rood?c1450 rod?a1560 pole1637 pole square1707 lug1727 1602 Burford Reg. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist.: Var. Coll. I. 164 Mowinge of barley for every acre by lugge not above v^d. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Acre, a Measure of Land, consisting of..an hundred and sixty square Lug or Perch of Land. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 115 He had inclosed with a hedge about four lug of the land. 1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Hereford 31 One standard is left to each forty-nine square yards, here called a lugg. 1845 Morning Chron. 22 Nov. 5/2 I have seen a sack [of potatoes] a lug on some land,—that is 160 sacks per acre. 1885 Berks. Vicar in Standard 17 Aug. 2/2 Allotments of twenty luggs each (i.e. one-eighth of an acre). Compounds attributive and in other combinations: † lug-acre n. Obsolete an acre based on that value of the pole or perch to which the name lug was locally applied. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific stang1326 acre by lug1602 lug-acre1635 Welsh acre1675 plantation acre1705 Cheshire acre1808 geld-acre1880 1635 Burford Reg. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 169 Wages... For reaping and binding of wheate..for every lugg aker not above ij^s. vj^d. † lug-fall n. Obsolete the length of a lug; a pole or perch. ΚΠ 1863 J. Scott Common Bench Rep. XII. 91 [Somerset Law Case.] The right..to enter..upon a part or strip, to wit, a lug fall [margin, A perch] of the said close. lug-pole n. U.S. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch boughc1000 limbOE brancha1300 trainc1390 grain1513 palm1559 arm1579 stem1584 lug-pole1773 hag wood1804 hag1808 tree branch1851 rame1858 society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc. stingc725 stakec893 sowelc900 tree971 rungOE shaftc1000 staffc1000 stockc1000 poleOE spritOE luga1250 lever1297 stanga1300 perchc1300 raftc1330 sheltbeam1336 stower1371 palea1382 spar1388 spire1392 perk1396 ragged staff1397 peela1400 slot1399 plantc1400 heck-stower1401 sparkin1408 cammockc1425 sallow stakec1440 spoke1467 perk treec1480 yard1480 bode1483 spit1485 bolm1513 gada1535 ruttock1542 stob1550 blade1558 wattle1570 bamboo1598 loggat1600 barling1611 sparret1632 picket1687 tringle1706 sprund1736 lug-pole1773 polting lug1789 baton1801 stuckin1809 rack-pin1821 picket-pin1844 I-iron1874 pricker1875 stag1881 podger1888 window pole1888 verge1897 sallow pole1898 lat1899 swizzle-stick1962 1773 Mass. Gaz. 4 Feb. (Suppl.) 1/2 A Defect in the Chimney, by Reason of the Wooden Lug-pole burning out. 1848 D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky (1870) v. 107 The tea kettle swung from a wooden ‘lug pole’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). lugn.² Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/, Scottish English /lʌɡ/ Forms: Also (1500s Scottish louge), 1500s–1600s lugg(e. Etymology: Of obscure etymology. As a synonym of ear , it first appears early in the 16th cent., and in colloquial Scots use has entirely superseded the older word. Presumably this application is a transferred use of a word that existed earlier with some other meaning. It is possible that the sense ‘ear-flap of a cap’, which is the earliest represented in our quots., may really be prior to the sense ‘ear’; for similar transferences of words from parts of clothing to the parts of the body covered, compare breech , crown , sole . If so, the word may perhaps be of Scandinavian origin, with a general sense of ‘something that can be pulled or laid hold of’, specialized differently in Swedish lugg forelock, with which compare English dialect (Sheffield, North Derbyshire, etc.) ‘to pull (somebody's) lugs’, meaning not as in Scotland, the ears, but the hair. (See lug v.) Chiefly Scottish and northern. 1. One of the flaps or lappets of a cap or bonnet, covering the ears. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > part which covers ears lug1495 oreillet1548 ear1579 earpiece1653 ear lappet1670 ear flap1823 ear guard1842 ear tab1855 ear muff1859 1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 225 Item, fra Henry Cant, ij cappis wyth luggis; price xxxvjs. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Euyrie scheiphird hed ane horne spune in the lug of there bonet. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1797) 35 He has a bee in his bannet lug. 1822 Goldie Poems 115 (E.D.D.) Cock yer bonnet hie, An' frae its lug let tartans flee. 2. a. = ear n.¹ 1, 2 Now colloquial or jocular.By the 19th cent. it had become the only word in use in Scottish, ear having become obsolete except in combination (though it is now standard). English writers of 16–17th centuries use lug as a slang or jocular synonym (see quots. 1592, 1631, and cf. 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > [noun] earOE lug1507 1507 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 437 That na craftis~men by hidis bot as the law requires, that is to say, the louge and the horne elik lang. 1515 Edinb. Counc. Rec. in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxii. 297 To be scurgeit to the gallows and thair his lug takkit to the beame. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 50 Kyng midas gat tua asse luggis on his hede be cause of his auereis. 1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 109 Sathan in ȝour knauish luggis bleu. 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. C ^v Then the Gentlewoman let loose his eares, and let slip his head, and away went he home with his bloody lugges. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii. 89 in Wks. II A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a Pillory. 1659 J. Shirley Contention Ajax & Ulisses i If you have a mind to lose one of your lugs,..Talk on. 1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence xiii I..Roun'd in his lug, that there was a Poor country Kate. 1786 R. Burns Poems 22 Let other Poets..grate our lug. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xii. 289 Dinna blaw in folks lugs that gate. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 52 I heard the balls whistle in our lugs. 1908 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. I. vii. 270 Lang an last, da laird grippit him be da lug. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 28 Give 'im a clip under the lug! 1922 Banffshire Jrnl. 26 Sept. 6 An' hame-brewn sets th' lugs a crackin'. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 187 Has the wrong sow by the lug. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 254 Cowley's red lugs and Adam's apple in the door of the sheriff's office. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 500 The snare drum! Lay yer lug till the groun. †b. In other than Scottish use, sometimes taken in specialized meanings: (a) the lobe of the ear; (b) a large ugly ear. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > types of ear lug1602 prick ears1641 cauliflower ear1909 thick ear1909 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [noun] > flap or lobe lapc1000 ear-lapOE list1530 lippet1598 lug1602 lappet1609 handle1615 libbet1627 auricle1650 flip-flop1661 pinna1682 helix1684 lobe1719 earlobea1785 ear flap1810 leaf1819 shell1831 pavilion1842 ear bud1953 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv. 2232 Like a great swine by his long leane eard lugges. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Le mol de l'oreille, the lug or list of th' eare. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis viii. 102 The prominency of our Eares serves also for a defence [etc.]..; all which commodities our mickle-wise mothers defraud us of by their nice dislike of Lugs, as they call them in reproach, and Prick-eares. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lug, the tip of the Ear. 1764 K. O'Hara Midas 60 Dare you think your clumsey lugs [printed lungs] so proper to decide, as The delicate ears of Justice Midas? c. In phrases similar to those at ear n.¹ Also (figurative) to get one's lug in one's loof, to be severely taken to task; by the lug and the horn, by main force; to hang by the lug of, to keep a firm hold of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > cling to cling1582 hug1649 to hang by the lug ofa1652 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > be rebuked or scolded to hear of it1598 to get on (also upon) the finger ends1693 to get one's lug in one's loof1744 to get wrong1803 to catch or get Jesse1839 to come in for it1841 to get hell1851 to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916 to have a strip torn off1940 a1652 R. Brome Madd Couple Well Matcht iii. i, in Wks. (1873) I. 47 You..were found by my servants at Luggs with your brace of Corps bearers. a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1708) 54 Since the Cause is put in his Hand, ye have ay good Reason to hing by the Lug of it. 1744 A. Smith in J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 481 I shall get my lug in my lufe, as we say, for what I have written. 1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 300 The poor Brutes..cock'd their Lugs when they came in sight of Maryburgh. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xx. 291 We carried them by the lug and the horn before a justice of peace. 1883 Thomson Leddy May 109 (E.D.D.) Up in debt owre the lugs, he is happy for a'. 3. An object resembling the external ear. a. The handle of a pitcher, etc. Also technical in various uses, denoting an appendage by which an object may be lifted or suspended; cf. ear n.¹ 7a, 7b, 10. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > handle lug1624 stouk1674 1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 151 One copper pan with 2 lugges. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlv. 371 Instructors of Children, shake the Heads of their Disciples, (as one would do a Pot in holding it by the Lugs). 1796 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 2) II. Suppl. 51 Sewing on one old lug or flap..0. 0. 6. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 220 The lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and one o' the lugs. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 510 That, when they ‘pree’ or examine a corner or lug of their nets, they may find it glitter with the silvery sheen of the fish. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lugs, the ears of a bomb-shell, to which the hooks are applied in lifting it. 1871 C. H. Owen Mod. Artillery 98 There are three natures of mortar shells..the two higher natures have either lugs or lewis holes. 1881 C. Whitehead Hops 69 A lug or ear is left on each side of the mouth of the pocket. 1895 Month Sept. 53 Its [the haddock's] head had been cut off, and it hung by the lug, or ear. b. = ear n.¹ 11. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts neck?a1425 buttc1425 cheek1487 wing1577 face1601 ear1678 wood1683 strig1703 thumb-piece1760 jaws1789 crown1796 lug1833 sprig1835 point angle1869 bulb1885 nosepiece1983 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 215 In the centre of this fulcrum are two projecting lugs, one on each side. 1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ ii. 16 The fork-shaped piece of wood that projects from the hanging end of the feeder [in the blowing-action], called the lug. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 33 A neat iron tank, with lugs to allow of its being screwed to a bench. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 262 The lugs of the barrels..should be oiled occasionally. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 39 Top~gallant yards are..fitted with an iron band and lug round the centre of the yard. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 271/2 The [bicycle] Frame is made of steel tubes, inserted at their points of junction into hollow stampings or castings of metal, known as ‘lugs’. c. The side-wall (of a fireplace or other recess); a (chimney) corner. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems 142 Frosty winds blaw..Ben to the chimla lug. 1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet xii. 276 He likit the lug o' the kitchen fire best. d. to put (or pile) on lugs, to put on airs. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 bride?1533 affect1600 mimp1673 to give oneself airs1701 fal-lal1818 pose1840 posturize1850 attitudinize1864 primp1875 posture1877 lardy-dardy1887 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 la-di-da1901 profile1970 the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 usurpc1400 to take state upon one1597 to come over ——1600 to gentilize it1607 to state it1625 to give oneself airs1701 to put on airs1715 to mount (also ride) the high horse1782 to put on (the) dog1865 to get (also have) notions1866 to put on side1870 to have a roll on1881 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 side1890 to put on the Ritz1921 1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 xvii. 188 If you notice me..piling on any lugs..you just bump me down hard. 1896 G. Ade Artie vi. 54 The family did n't put on no such lugs in them days. 1903 A. Bennett Leonora iv. 106 American women..put on too much lugs, at any rate for an Englishman. 1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 15 Sept. 12 Dr. Hall puts on no ‘lugs’, and is not above sitting on a cracker barrel in a country grocery for a chat with old acquaintances. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. 326 Oh, the lugs he puts on—belted coat, and piqué collar. e. A demand for borrowed or exacted money. Esp. in to put the lug on, to extort, to put pressure on. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > pressurize to put (also bring, exert) pressure on1853 squeeze1888 pressure1911 high-pressure1925 to put the lug on1929 to put the squeeze on1941 pressurize1945 to turn the heat on1957 to lean on1960 the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [noun] > demand for borrowed money lug1929 1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Aug. 73/2 Why do you not put the lug on him? 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 84/2 Out on the lug, engaged in begging racket. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 93/1 Put the lug on, to borrow; to beat up a racketeer with blackjack or brass knuckles for muscling in on forbidden territory. 1936 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 15 Oct. 6/1 Indiana uses the ‘Lug’. 1938 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 14 Feb. 1/6 The Democratic organization's lug on all city and county employees—for its campaign fund..has been started. 1940 Topeka (Kansas) State Jrnl. 26 Mar. 1/8 Shakedowns in Topeka are known to have ranged from $20 to $50 monthly, depending on the amount of illegal business done by the individuals on whom the lug was put. 1973 M. Truman Harry S. Truman vii. 129 My father also knew, from his inside contacts with Missouri Democrats, that the governor..was ‘putting the lug’ (to use Missouri terminology) on state employees to contribute to his campaign fund. 4. Tobacco trade (see quots.). ΚΠ 1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 175 An eminent tobacco manufacturer of Richmond has offered the inhabitants of this district to take all of their tobacco, (lugs included) at $10 a hundred. 1851 Southern Planter (Richmond, Va.) June 192/1 We quote lugs $5 25 to $7. 1888 Paton & Dittmar in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 424/2 The leaves [of tobacco] are..sorted into qualities, such as ‘lugs’, or lower leaves, ‘firsts’ and ‘seconds’. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 442 The lowest grade was known as lugs as early as 1686. 5. Chiefly North American slang. Used contemptuously of a person: a lout, a sponger. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 1931 Brevities (N.Y.) 19 Oct. 2/1 Is his only sin the fact that he was born a lug? 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 73/2 Lug, an incapable person who frequently borrows small sums of money. 1936 R. Chandler Black Mask June 24/1 The girl snapped at me: ‘Is this lug your partner?’ 1952 Landfall 6 265 Now there's your sermon!.. No, no, no. These lugs would never understand. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxix. 284 The big fellows slip through my fingers, leaving some tough lug to take the rap. 1968 B. Turner Sex Trap xi. 98 ‘The other lug's at June's,’ Louis said. 1973 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 20 Mar. 2388/1 I will stand down when Mr. Speaker tells me to, not when you lugs tell me to. 1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 116 Any other names you can come up with?.. You don't owe these lugs anything. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) lug-cap n. ΚΠ 1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 3/1 The black skull cap of silk or cotton, the common lug-cap [etc.]. b. (In sense 2.) lug-drum n. ΚΠ 1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 169 The whistlin' and the skirlin'..Rings through ane's lug-drum like a bullet. lug-trumpet n. ΚΠ 1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 832 Gin he uses a lug-trumpet. c. (In sense 3.) lug-end n. ΚΠ 1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) App. 228 These plates must be perforated all over..to within about ¾ in. of the top, or lug-end. lug-knee n. ΚΠ 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 39 Plate XVI. and fig. 7, show the kind known as lug knees, the lugs being forged to the knee. C2. lug-bab n. Scottish an ear-drop (cf. bob n.¹ 3). ΚΠ 1725 Cock-laird in Orpheus Caledonius Craig-claiths, and lug-babs, And rings twa or three. Categories » lug-bolt n. a cylindrical bolt, to which is welded a flat iron bar ( Cent. Dict.). lug-chair n. an easy chair with side-pieces for the head. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > wing wing-back1734 wing chair1775 lug-chair1901 wing-back chair1933 1901 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 347/1 Humped in his lug-chair, he would forget his duty. lug-haul v. to pull by the ears. ΚΠ 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. vii. 201 Speak plain out, else I'll have thee lug-hauled, thou dwarf! lughole n. dialect and colloquial ear-hole. ΚΠ 1895 J. S. Fletcher Wonderful Wapentake 72 I'll come..and pelt thi lughoil for tha. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 96 Stuff thi lug-whols wi' woo. 1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 20 Is lugole, his ear. 1973 Times 25 Aug. 10/8 A session with Hello, Cheeky is like being exposed to some noisy, rude and unstoppable urchin who wins you round or at least averts a skull-shattering clout about the lughole simply because he will go on regardless. lug-knot n. a knot of ribbons worn at the ear. ΚΠ 17.. Muirland Willie xii, in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1788) I. 9 Our bride's maidens were na few, Wi' tap-knots, lug-knots, a' in blew. lug-mark n. and v. = earmark n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on betoken1382 signa1398 tokena1400 note1490 brand1587 countermark1611 signate1616 countersign1662 counter-note1665 lug-marka1699 check1928 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > branding or marking > ear-mark earmarka1500 swallow fork1636 crop1653 halfpenny1658 gad1666 underkeel1677 lug-mark1802 underbit1837 sleepering1910 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > mark stowa1642 gabel1715 smit1779 lug-mark1892 a1699 M. Shields in J. Howie Faithful Contendings Displayed (1780) 181 Imprisoning,..lugg-marking, banishing, and killing. 1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 191 They [lambs] receive..marks cut into the ear with a knife, designed lug mark. 1892 Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 28 Mar. 5/6 A Northumberland farmer..in identifying a heifer in dispute, stated that he lug-marked it. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 68 Every sentence has got the ‘Gallowa' lug-mark’ plain on it. lug sole n. North American (see quot. 1961). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > sole > other cork1463 crêpe sole1926 platform sole1938 wedge sole1939 platform1945 ripple sole1949 Vibram1950 lug sole1961 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug sole, a thick rubber sole that has deep indentations in a pattern designed to provide good footing and is used on sport and work shoes. 1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/2 (advt.) Heavy duty lug sole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † lugn.³ Etymology: Compare lug v. (sense 3) and n.⁷; also Low German lug , Dutch log , slow, heavy, and log n.¹ Obsolete. Something heavy and clumsy; in quot. applied to a massive bow. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is lug1545 monster1759 hulk1818 megatherium1850 potwalloper1896 dinosaur1975 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 3 The other [bowe] is a lugge slowe of cast, folowing the string, more sure for to last, then pleasaunt for to vse. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vastus arcus, a lugge, or mighty bigge bowe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lugn.⁴ Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/ Forms: Also 1600s lugg, 1600s, 1800s log. Etymology: Compare lug n.³; also lurg n. A large marine worm ( Arenicola marina) which burrows in the sands of the British coast and is much used for bait. Also in combinations, as lug-worm n. lug-fork n. (see quot. 1883). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Scoleciformia > family Arenicolidae > member of (lug-worms) lug1602 squirrel-tail1653 sand-worm1776 treachet1787 lug-worm1813 lob-worm1854 sand lob1889 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 34^v The Lugge is a worme resembling the Tagworme or Angletouch, and lying in the Ose somewhat deepe, from whence the women digge them vp, and sell them to the Fishermen. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 277 All the above [fish]..are taken with lines baited with mussels and lug. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 409 Lug-worms are marine animals. 1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 315 A sufficient supply of ‘log’, or the worms found in the sea-sand. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 Lug Fork..used..for digging large Lugworms. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lugn.⁵ Etymology: Of obscure origin. The modern Cornwall dialect has ‘Lugg, the undergrowth of weed in a field of corn’, but the identity of the word is doubtful. Obsolete. = flag n.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > irises gladdona700 gladiolusc1000 flaga1387 fleur-de-lisc1390 regworta1400 yellow flag1526 lug1538 yellow lily1555 spurge-wort1562 swordling1562 garden flag1578 ireos1578 iris1578 stinking iris1578 water flag1578 yellow iris1578 fane1597 Florentine flower-de-luce1597 stinking gladdon1597 stinking sedge1597 velvet flower-de-luce1597 orris1609 sisyrinchium1629 luce1642 Florence iris1664 cuttle-haft1688 blue flag1732 snake's-head iris1739 flag-flower1753 roast-beef plant1800 shalder1825 flag-leaf1827 sweet sedge1839 poison flag1840 flagger1842 wedding-flower1869 mourning iris1874 flagon1878 Rocky Mountain iris1880 Florentine iris1882 Japanese iris1883 flag-lily1884 sword-flag1884 blue iris1886 thunderbolt1898 scorpion iris1900 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Acorvm Lug. 1859 W. K. Clay Waterbeach 21 Lugs (flags)..made a coarse kind of hay for foddering their cattle in the winter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lugn.⁶ Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/ Etymology: Shortened < lug-sail n. = lug-sail n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > lug-sail lug-sail1677 lug1830 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 200 Up with the lugs. 1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 100 Sling a dipping lug ¹/ ₃ from the foremost yard arm; standing lug ¹/ ₄. 1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 9 She was jogging easily along under her fore and mizzen lugs and a small jib. Compounds C1. lug-rigged adj. ΚΠ 1859 All Year Round 10 Dec. 148 My eye lights..on certain lug-rigged boats bobbing along the waves. These are fishing-boats. C2. lug-boat n. (see quot. 1867). ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lug-boat, the fine Deal boats which brave the severest weather; they are rigged as luggers, and dip the yards in tacking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lugn.⁷ Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/ Etymology: < lug v. a. The action of lugging; a rough pull. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the ear or side of the head > rough pull on the ear luga1627 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling forcibly > an act of ruga1500 tug?a1513 lug1897 a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 All but a lugg byth'eare. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Pp3/2 To give one a lug, tirer l'Oreille à quêcun tout d' un coup. 1708 Brit. Apollo 4–9 June I'll soundly lug his ears... The Lug might more be fear'd by you. 1897 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug, the act of lugging; as, a hard lug... (Colloq.) b. concrete (U.S.) (see quot. 1828). ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug,..something heavy to be drawn or carried. (Vulgar.) 1897 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lug,..that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug. (Colloq.) Draft additions 1997 concrete. A thing which is or needs to be lugged, spec. a box or crate used for shipping fruit. Originally as lug box. North American. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > crate or packing-case > specific egg-box1854 orange crate1889 soap-box1907 lug box1916 egg-crate1943 1916 B. S. Brown Mod. Fruit Marketing i. 15 If they do not care to take the regular packing box into the field, they supply what is known as the ‘lug’ box holding about 50 pounds each. 1921 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1196. 29 The lug box is used very extensively in the West for wine grapes. These lugs are..designed to hold from 20 to 40 pounds of grapes. 1929 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1579. 6 California avocadoes are shipped in three different sizes of crates known as the lug, the half lug, and the flat. The lug..holds about 2 dozen medium to large fruits. 1949 Los Angeles Times 2 July 5/4 It takes an hour for a lug of grapes to pass through the [precooling] tunnel. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxi. 246 You can buy fruit..for two bits a lug. 1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 July 9/2 A crate of lettuce and two lugs of tomatoes. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. iii. 58 There was a café across the street and outside it a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lugv. Brit. /lʌɡ/, U.S. /ləɡ/ Forms: Also Middle English logge, Middle English–1700s lugg(e. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish lugga to pull a person's hair, < lugg forelock, also nap of cloth. Normally an Old Norse lugg might be cognate with a verb lǫggva < Old Germanic lauwan, represented only by Middle Dutch lauwen, gelauwen* to snatch at, seize. 1. transitive. To pull, give a pull to, to pull by (the ear, hair, etc.); to tease, worry, bait (a bear, bull, etc.). Obsolete exc. dialect.In South Yorkshire and the adjacent counties the most common use is in the sense ‘to pull the hair of (a person)’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > strike on specific part of body [verb (transitive)] > on the head > on the ear > give (the ear or hair) a rough pull lug1390 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > bait [verb (transitive)] sleatc1000 baita1300 luga1627 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 149 Be the chyn and be the cheke Sche luggeth him riht as hir liste. 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles ii. 173 This lorell that ladde this loby awey..was ffelliche ylauȝte and luggid fful ylle. 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. B.iii Leue thy railynge..Or by Iys Ish lug the by the swete eares. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) ii. sig. C4 Like a Common Garden Bull, I doe but take breath to be lug'd agen. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. x. 6) These also [sc. swine] when lugged..will hie to their home. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xx. 258 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) He was Lugg'd, and Tumbled by the Rabble. 1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 27 I'l have my Foot-men lug you, you Curr. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 16 To see a Strumpet tear A Cynicks Beard, and lug him by the Hair. 1716 A. Pope Corr. Nov. (1956) I. 373 Mr. Lintott lug'd the reins, stopt short, and broke out, ‘Well, Sir, how far have you gone?’ 1775 A. Mackrabie Let. 23 Mar. in Francis Lett. (1901) I. 231 Some with Pincers pulling out their own Beards, and Lugging their Ears. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 64 The dog..still fawns on the master who is lugging his ears. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 150 So saying, he lugged me by the ear, upon which I knocked him down for his trouble. 2. a. intransitive. To pull, tug. Of a horse: To press heavily on (the bit or reins). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > forcibly tug1303 luga1375 a1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 350 Wiþ his teth anon He logged þat al in synder gon lasch. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 263 Lord than gif thay luggit. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. E. van Meteren in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 601 This huge and monstrous galliasse, wherein were contained three hundred slaues to lug at the oares. 1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 32 A whip awaits shirkers and shufflers Who slacken their pace, sick of lugging At what don't advance for their tugging. 1894 Crocker Educ. Horse 57 A colt thoroughly bitted with this bridle will never lug on the reins. 1894 Crocker Educ. Horse 133 A horse that lugs on the bit. †b. To take a pull at (liquor, the breast). Also transitive. To pull at (the breast). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] drinkc1000 bite?c1225 touchc1384 supc1400 neck?1518 exhaust1555 lug1577 pipe?1578 to suck at1584 slup1598 reswill1614 imbibe1621 tug1698 absorb1821 tipple1824 inhaust1848 down1869 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xviii. i. 295 How our maltbugs lug at this liquor. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 467 When we have lugged the brest almost drie. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 969 That he might cease to be trouble~some to his mother, and not lie alwaies lugging at her brests. 1617 J. Moore Two-fold Cord ii. 43 in Mappe Mans Mortal. The brests of the world, (which we alwayes would be lugging). c. To move about, along, heavily and slowly; to drag. rare now only technical.In South Yorkshire, etc. a comb is said to ‘lug’ when it meets with resistance in passing through the hair. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 443 As þat lyftande lome [sc. the Ark] luged aboute. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iv. i. 73 My flagging Soul flyes under her own pitch; Like Fowl in air too damp, and lugs along, As if she were a body in a body. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 446 When balls stick together in distributing they are said to lug. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 78 When rollers are tacky or stick together they are said to lug. 3. a. transitive. To pull along with violent effort; to drag, tug (something heavy). Also with adverbs (cf. 5). †to lug forth, absol. (nonce-use) = to lug out at sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > forcibly halec1275 hurlc1305 ruga1325 windc1400 lugc1540 haul1581 pully-haul1839 snake1856 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11029 Þe Mirmydons,..Lepyn to þere lord, lugget hym away. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12323 The lady þat the lede lugget of þe toure. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cœnum Ineluctabile cœnum, out of whiche one can not lugge his legges. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xxxix. 115 They lugged me forth and caried me away. 1683 J. Dryden Epil. in Prol. to the King & Queen sig. B2 Think on your Souls; but by your lugging forth, It seems you know how little they are Worth. 1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse (1709) 12 There Sweat, there Strain, there lug the laborious Oar. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 229 I lugg'd this Money home to my Cave, and laid it up. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 291 The Turkish Admiral..caused his Janizaries..to lug along all the heavy Artillery, in Slings, on their Shoulders. 1782 C. A. Burney Jrnl. 15 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary Mr. Seward came up..lugging a chair into the middle of the room for me. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 332 She lugged from the fire a huge iron pot. 1898 A. Balfour To Arms viii. 90 I was lugged headlong up a steep stair. b. colloquial with a hyperbolical suggestion of ponderousness in the object. ΚΠ 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 260 It is..more convenient..than to lug a Galli-pot along with him. 1717 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 440 Allow me..to lug an old Busto behind you, & I shall be proud beyond expression. 1747 H. Walpole Let. 10 Apr. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 212 The Countess used to lug a half-length picture..behind her post-chaise. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 8 Boswell..succeeded in lugging him [Johnson] into the wilds of the Highlands. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure vii. 91 How can you expect that a man who is being lugged forward at all times..can have the nerves in good order. 1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 14 His wife lugged it [a marble god] down here with her yesterday. 4. figurative. To introduce in a forced manner, or irrelevantly; = drag v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > intrude or insinuate intruse?a1500 ingyre1513 shuffle1565 cog1570 foist1570 wind?1570 obtrudea1575 interject1588 filch?1589 intrude1592 inthrust1605 possess1606 suborna1620 inedge1632 interlopea1641 subintroducteda1641 subintroduce1643 to hedge in1664 insinuate1665 dodge1687 lug1721 assinuate1742 wriggle1766 fudge1776 intertrude1809 injeer1820 protrude1840 sniggle1881 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) App. 320 There is scarcely an enormity in the university, which you have not luggd~in. 1774 S. Crisp Let. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 303 In Raphael's School of Athens..I like his picture of the..Dwarf, which for fun and spite he lugg'd by head and shoulders into that fine composition. 1901 Scotsman 1 Mar. 5/3 Counsel for the other side had lugged in every thing he could to prejudice the case. 5. to lug out. a. transitive. See main sense senses and out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > bring out outbringeOE forthbringc1000 upbringa1250 forthbearc1305 to lug out1723 out1907 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6663 Weghis of his aune Luggit hym out to þe laund. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 15 The Major lug'd out the Goods. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine vi Mr. Brock lugged out five guineas. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 58 The little fellow was obliged to lug out his sword. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 23 You land and lug out the tent. figurative.1755 Barnaby Bright's New Jrnl. 3 I thought of..lugging out my florid style, which I keep by me for Holidays.1891 Speaker 2 May 532/2 The Quarterly reviewer also lugs out again that ‘very ancient and fish-like’ fallacy which distinguishes between duties and rights. b. absol. or intransitive. To draw one's sword; to pull out money or a purse. Now only archaic. †Also figurative, To launch out in talk. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] spenec1175 spend1297 to do or make (the) cost(s)c1325 costc1384 to be at charge or at charges?1542 to be at cost?1548 to spend and be spent1611 disburse1615 to lug out1684 tap1712 part1864 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > use or fight with sword [verb (intransitive)] > draw sword draw?1570 exhale1600 to lug out1684 the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak upbreakc1275 to set spell on enda1300 gina1333 to take up (one's) parablea1382 braidc1400 to take up the word1477 begin1563 exordiate1594 to speak upa1723 to lug out1787 to speak out1792 upspeak1827 exordize1887 shoot1915 open1926 to come in1949 1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment They Caterwaul..Call Sons of Whores, and strike, but ne're lugg-out. 1700 Step to the Bath (ed. 2) 4 They call'd for a Bill, which was presently brought; out I lugg'd, and was going to Discharge, but [etc.]. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iv. 20 My poor uncle,..was obliged to lug out in his own defence. 1787 Minor iv. v. 214 I lugged out in the most feeling manner on my sad situation. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. i. 4 Put up both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman. 1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek I. ix. 287 If the patrons of art don't lug out handsomely to get..that picture ——. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke ix. 75 I..might have had more, had that young fool not lugged out at me. †6. intransitive ? To draw swords (= to lug out at sense 5); or ? to tussle. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. F^v Lug with him boy, honors in bloud best swim. 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