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trog1 /trɒɡ /noun British informalA person regarded as contemptible or socially inferior.Unlike him, I think top universities do have a duty to open more routes, but ministers should devise quotas that help the genuinely disadvantaged, the trogs of Hartlepool, not the trendies of Hampstead....- At the risk of sounding like one of those trogs who dwells in a cave, shouts UGH when a strange clan shows up and waves monkey femurs, and must wait 75,000 years before Nuance is discovered, I'll admit to being anti-enemy.
- Where are all the not-yet-total trogs, but not still bling-bling homies?
Origin1950s: abbreviation of troglodyte. Rhymesagog, befog, blog, bog, clog, cog, dog, flog, fog, grog, hog, Hogg, hotdog, jog, log, nog, prog, slog, smog, snog, sprog, tautog, tog trog2 /trɒɡ /verb (trogs, trogging, trogged) [no object, with adverbial of direction] British informalWalk heavily or laboriously; trudge: I left him trogging off to the tube station...- He is happy to continue his apprenticeship with Gary, trogging up and down to Wales each week in the famous ‘magic bus’.
- The guided Sicilian Volcano Hike will have you trogging up and around Etna for a couple of days, exploring craters and eerie lava fields, then cresting the summit.
- But I haven't come along and sort of trogged around Hollywood begging for a job.
Origin1980s: perhaps a blend of trudge or trek and slog. |