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▪ I. chug, n. orig. U.S.|tʃʌg|
[Onomatopœic.]
A plunging, muffled, or explosive sound, esp. the characteristic sound of an internal combustion engine when running slowly. Also repeated, and Comb.
1866Harper's Mag. Jan. 271/2 The ponderous brother came down upon the floor with a ‘chugg’ that shook the house. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 56/2 One weapon after another struck [the water] ‘chug-chug-chug-chug’. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 219 He would hear..the chug-drug of a boar sharpening his tusks on a bole. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 175/1, I accidentally cast myself into the pool with a sounding chug. 1920Blackw. Mag. May 649/1 The chug, chug of the dripping paddle floats. 1923Outward Bound Mar. 420/1 The chug of the engine still filled our ears. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. 250/1 The ‘chug-chug’ of an oil-engine could be faintly heard. 1957K. M. Kenyon Digging up Jericho x. 238 The roar of the primus..and the chug of the generator.
▪ II. chug, v.|tʃʌg|
[Onomatopœic.]
intr. To make an intermittent explosive sound as of the escape of exhaust gases from an engine cylinder; to move with a sound characteristic of a steam-engine or electric motor at work. Also adv., as off, on, along, out. Also quasi-trans. Hence ˈchugging vbl. n., the action of the verb; spec. in rocket engines: see quots. 1952 and 1964. Similarly chug-chug v.
1896Harper's Mag. Aug. 347 The chug-chugging of the machinery. 1904Everybody's Mag. X. 256/2 The first of the survivors had chugged up..to the rendezvous where the Automobile Club of Pittsburgh waited. 1907Daily Chron. 13 June 4/4 A big motor-car tooting and chug-chugging. 1915W. Irwin Men, Women & War 52 The grey motor cycles and automobiles streaked past, their mufflers cut out, chugging the message of death. 1916Church Army Rev. June 4 Now she [sc. the tender] came chugging across and slid alongside. 1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 114 Slowly.. our train chugged northward. 1919Detective Story Mag. 25 Nov. XXVIII. 25 A distant chugging testified that the Duke's taxicab was approaching. 1922[see automotive a.]. 1923Challenge 23 Mar. 523/1 The long-waisted fish-carriers which some two or three times a week chug their way through the crowded traffic of the Pool. 1928Daily Express 11 Aug. 3/1 We chug-chugged comfortably down Southampton Water. 1940L. A. G. Strong Sun on Water 29 Then a chugging sound filled the small still bay, and Sandy Blake's boat reappeared. 1951Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. X. 42 A criterion for the proper design of liquid rocket motors to ensure freedom from the phenomenon of ‘chugging’ without unnecessary increase in fuel-tank or fuel-pump pressures. 1952Ibid. XI. 52 An hypothesis that low-frequency oscillations (chugging) sometimes observed in liquid propellant rocket engines, are the result of oscillatory propellant flow induced by a combustion time lag. 1954X. Fielding Hide & Seek xiv. 171 It was obviously the caique... It..came chugging straight towards us. 1957Listener 26 Sept. 486/1 There would be no need to chug off down some of the branch lines. 1964Engineering 14 Feb. 270/2 A surging effect sometimes occurs in rocket engines and is called ‘chugging’.
▸ intr. N. Amer. Angling. To create sounds underwater in order to lure or drive fish, esp. while ice fishing. rare.
1885N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 2/7 In the language of the backwoods, the recreation is called chugging, and as no one can ‘chug’ until the ponds are solidly frozen over the sport is a winter one. 1956Traverse City (Mich.) Rec.-Eagle 19 Mar. 17/1 Between 40 and 50 fishermen..crowded onto the ice..and chugged for ciscoes. 1991J. Harrison Just before Dark (1999) ii. 74, I attached a Swedish pimple..to a line, dropped it to the bottom..and began chugging.
▸ trans. colloq. (orig. U.S.) = chugalug v. Also with down. Also intr.
1958J. Davis College Vocab. (term paper, Indiana Univ. Folklore Archive) 15 Chug down, drink a whole measure of a beverage without stopping. 1961M. Terry Old Liberty xxii. 159 He would chug with us. 1975Chicago Tribune 19 Jan. (Mag. section) 6/5 A dressing so tangy that it had us chugging the draft beer. 2004Diva Mar. 47/2 She pauses to chug her customary, lurid alcopops in celebration. |