rug
/ˈɹʌɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
Australian usage; British usage
noun
A cloth covering for a horse.
Example Sentences
- "They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time."
- "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."
- "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.″"
- "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."
- "He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire."
- "They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, *rugge, rǫgg, *rawwō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹʌɡ/
- British English: /ˈɹʌɡ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Archaic
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Transitive verb