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▪ I. ‖ burg|bʊrg, bʊəg, also bɜːg|
[WGer. burg (whence late L. burgus), an earlier form of the word which has become borough in English.]
1. Occasionally applied by historians to a fortress (borough 1) or a walled town (borough 2) of early and mediæval times, so as to exclude the later notions connected with burgh, borough. See borough 3. Also comb. burg-ward (see quot.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Burgward..in middle age writers, the same with bulwark. The name is also extended to the town, and even the country about such a fortress. 1859Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lvi. 104 The fierce warriors of the north, Romans only in name..now fell without remorse on the burgs and colonies. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. 219 The monk who guarded the relics of the saint within the walled burg. 1876Morris Sigurd iii. 172 And there is the burg of Brynhild, the white-walled house and long.
2. A town or city. (Also berg, burgh.) U.S. colloq.
1843Spirit of Times 25 Mar. 43/1 Two ‘individs’ in this ‘burg’ will give our friend Greer ‘the run of his teeth’ whenever he visits New York. 1846S. Smith Theatr. Apprent. 151 The stranger..also disembarked at the same burgh. 1888Battle Creek Weekly Jrnl. 8 Feb., If successful, it will make a lively burg in the next few years. 1901‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft ii. 30 All cities where fakirs show up strong in the streets and tramps have a quarter of their own, are recognized by grafters in general as ‘open bergs’. 1903A. Adams Log Cowboy vi. 71 The wagon and a number of the boys went into the burg. 1944D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte (1946) vi. 92 There are no more opportunities for you in this burg.
▪ II. burg
obs. f. borough; var. of broch. |