trug

Compare trough.

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

trug (plural trugs)

1. (chiefly British) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
4. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
   • 1630, John Taylor, “The World Runs on Wheels”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet:

     the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […] many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down

• GURT, gurt, turg

From Old Norse trog.

trug n (singular definite truget, plural indefinite trug)

1. trough

• IPA^(key): /truːk/, [tʁuːk] (standard)

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  • Rhymes: -uːk
• IPA^(key): /truːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Homophone: Trug (but /x/ is less common in this, so some speakers may distinguish)

trug

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tragen

trug m (definite singular trugen, indefinite plural trugar, definite plural trugane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of truge f