Meaning

11 senses
  1. A partial covering for a floor.

    Teppich, Brücke

    ко́врикkóvrik

    килимо́кkylymók

    floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

  2. (Australia, UK)A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.

    1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.

  3. A cloth covering for a horse.

  4. (slang)The female pubic hair.

  5. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.

  6. (slang)A wig; a hairpiece.

  7. (colloquial)A dense growth of chest hair.

  8. (archaic, historical)A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.

  9. (archaic, historical)A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.

  10. (obsolete, rare)A person wearing a rug.

  11. (obsolete, rare)A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.

Examples

170 sentences
  1. They climbed the rugged north face.

  2. Tom buys and sells antique rugs.

  3. The rug was covered with cat hair.

    ruКовёр был покрыт шерстью кота. — odexed

  4. The document was found under the rug.

  5. Tom beat the rug with his old racket.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
partial floor covering:
Русский
By meaning 1
partial floor covering:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
partial floor covering:

Origin

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.

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Forms

plural: rugs
Singularrug
Pluralrugs

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
small carpet:carpetB1mat
Close in meaning
  • floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile):carpetcarpeting

Word family

25 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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