rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rŭg
ipa: /ɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: rugs
Etymology: Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).
Senses: glosses: A partial covering for a floor.
examples: text: They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
ref: 1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254:
text: Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
ref: 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297:
text: 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,
My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″
text: 1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books
She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.
text: He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
ref: 1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22:
glosses: A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
examples: text: They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
glosses: A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
glosses: A person wearing a rug.
glosses: A cloth covering for a horse.
glosses: A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
glosses: The female pubic hair.
glosses: A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
examples: text: The intervening years have been kind to Edward Fox and John Wells, who now assume the principal roles, in allowing them to keep their full complement of hair. Mr Fox shows his gratitude by using his rug as a prop, flopping it forward, Welsh-combing it back, letting it stand up on end as if from shock, while Mr Wells is content mostly to let his limply swathe his forehead.
ref: 1985 July 12, Martin Cropper, “Theatre: The Philanthropist”, in The Times, number 62,188, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
glosses: A wig; a hairpiece.
glosses: A dense growth of chest hair.
examples: text: We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.
ref: 1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:
glosses: Ellipsis of rughead.
Synonyms: sense: small carpet
word: carpet
sense: small carpet
word: mat
sense: wig
word: toupee
sense: wig
word: wig
Derived terms: area rug
brush something under the rug
cut a rug
cute as a bug in a rug
cut the rug
drug rug
lie like a cheap rug
lie like a rug
Nain rug
Oriental rug
oriental rug
prayer rug
pull the rug
pull the rug out from under
rag rug
rug-cutter
rug-cutting
rug-headed
rug hooking
rug joint
rug monkey
rug muncher
rug pilot
rug pull
rug-pull
rug ranking
rug rat
rug rider
scatter rug
snug as a bug in a rug
sweep something under the rug
throw rug
under the rug