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Brog vs Trog - What's the difference?

brog | trog |

As a noun brog

is a pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

As a verb brog

is to prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.

As an adjective trog is

inert, slow.

brog

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

    • Verb

    (brogg)
  • To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To broggle.
    • (Webster 1913)

    trog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
  • * 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage 2005, p. 253:
  • *:‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

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