Progger vs Progged - What's the difference?
progger | progged |
(music) A progressive rocker
* {{quote-news, year=1997, date=June 27, author=John Corbett, title=Broken Wire, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=But the 90s being the decade of guilty pleasures, it's not uncommon these days to encounter ghosts of proggers past in the least likely places. }} (prog)
Abbreviation of progressive.
* 2003 , Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos
(label) Progressive rock
(computing, informal) A program.
* 2001 , "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp'' (on newsgroup ''24hoursupport.helpdesk )
* 2001', "Yoda", ''How do I get '''progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?'' (on newsgroup ''linux.redhat )
* 2003 , "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups?'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.win98.apps )
proctor
(slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
* (Robert Browning)
(slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
(obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
* Fuller
* Burke
(obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
(Webster 1913)
As a noun progger
is a progressive rocker.As a verb progged is
past tense of prog.progger
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
progged
English
Verb
(head)prog
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviations.Adjective
(-)- Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves ...
Noun
(en noun)- I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.
Etymology 2
Noun
- (Jonathan Swift)
- So long as he picked from the filth his prog .
Verb
(progg)- a perfect artist in progging for money
- I have been endeavouring to prog for you.
- (Johnson)