plug
/plʌɡ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
noun
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
Example Sentences
- "I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again."
- "Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain."
- "Near-synonym: chewing tobacco"
- "He preferred a plug to snuff."
- "He preferred plug to snuff."
- "That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!"
Etymology
From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate. Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plug, plugge, *pluggi, *plugi, *plugjaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plʌɡ/
- British English: /plʌɡ/