tug
verbenomnomattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈtʌɡ//
- États-Unis/[ˈtʰʌɡ]/
- Australie//ˈtɐɡ//
- Australie/[ˈtʰɐ̞ɡ]/
- //ˈtəɡ//
To pull or drag with great effort.
verbe
- 1
To pull or drag with great effort.
The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
- 2
To pull hard repeatedly.
He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
- 3
To tow by tugboat.
- 4
argotTo masturbate.
Étymologie
From Middle English tuggen, from Old English togian (“to tow”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull; to lead”). Cognates Cognate with German zögern (“to hesitate, pause”), Faroese and Icelandic toga (“to pull”), French touer (“to tow, tug a ship”); also Welsh dwyn (“to steal; to take; to bring to”), Latin dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead; to take; to draw, pull; to consider, think; to prolong; to march; to forge”), Ancient Greek δαδύσσομαι (dadússomai, “to be distracted”), Albanian nduk (“to pluck out, pull out, tear”), Central Kurdish دۆشین (doşîn, “to milk”), Northern Kurdish dotin, doşîn, دۆشین (doşîn, “to milk”), Ossetian ду́цын (dúcyn, “to milk”), Pashto لوشل (lwašal, “to milk; to extort”), Persian دوشیدن (dōšīdan / dušidan), دوشتن (duštan), دوختن (dōxtan / duxtan, “to milk”). Related to tow.
nom
- 1
A sudden powerful pull.
At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel that tug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.
But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
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A tugboat.
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
- 3
A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- 4
obsolèteA kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug
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A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
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A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
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An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
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argotAn act of male masturbation.
He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
nom
- 1
argotA foundationer or colleger at Eton.
Étymologie
Related to toga.
Formes
- pluriel
- tugs
- passé
- tugged
- participe passé
- tugged
- participe présent
- tugging
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- tugs
tug · To pull or drag with great effort.
tuition · The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.tulip · A type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.Tulip · A surname.