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noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
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noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
A person whose job involves moving or pulling heavy objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
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noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
A person hired to locate potential customers and bring them to a gambling establishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
Topics: gambling, games
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Synonyms: picker-up, roper, runner, steerer
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noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
A rower who tends to rely on strength rather than technique.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, derogatory, figuratively, slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, rowing, sports
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noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
A con artist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, US, also, figuratively, slang
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Synonyms: charlatan, con artist, conman, duper, fraud, fraudster, grifter, hustler, lugger, scammer, shyster, snake oil salesman, snake, swindler, trickster
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noun
A small sailing vessel having two or three masts and a running bowsprit, carrying lugsails.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Alternative form of laggar (“the jugger (Falco jugger), a mid-sized falcon native to the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, Iran, and Myanmar”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Synonym of lug (“to drag or haul (someone or something, especially when heavy); to carry, to pull”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: lug
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verb
To tease (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To move heavily while, or as if, laden with goods; to lumber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To sail a lugger (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: boat
History
Etymology tree English lug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lugger From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs).
Etymology tree English lug(sail) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er ? English lugger The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”). The verb is derived from the noun.
A variant of laggar.
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
