Rugger vs Drugger - What's the difference?
rugger | drugger |
(uncountable) rugby
(US) a person who rugby
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, title=The Sport of Rough Gentlemen
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, title=My Heart's In Highlands, A Chasing The Ruggers
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, issue=7
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, title=Rugby: Aliens 3, Locals 0
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(obsolete) A druggist.
* 1870 , Harper's Magazine
As nouns the difference between rugger and drugger
is that rugger is rugby while drugger is a druggist.rugger
English
Noun
citation, passage=To this day ruggers belittle soccer, and they will tell anyone who expresses the slightest interest in their game that rugby is "a ruffian's game played by gentlemen," while soccer is "a gentleman's game played by ruffians." }}
citation, passage=When you put sixty ruggers and their friends and lovers in a bar, you've really got something going. }}
citation, passage=Some of the world's most talented ruggers' had come to New York for the weekend to play for fun. "What's football — just an Americanization of rugby," exclaimed one fan at the 38th Annual New York Sevens Tournament. … Brian Corcoran, who in 1990 played for Team USA for free, distinguished ' ruggers from "the spoiled, arrogant professionals you're dealing with in other sports." }}
citation, archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage=After the game, the teams adjourned to the Dolphins’ usual after-match location, O’Brien’s Irish Pub on Main Street, where they enjoyed a spirited social together: songs were sung, speeches and presentations were made, and mutual admiration was expressed, particularly toward the soldier-ruggers of the 7th for their sacrifice and dedication. }}
Derived terms
* rugger buggerSee also
* soccerdrugger
English
Noun
(en noun)- a rural citizen entered a druggist's shop and asked for ten cents' worth of magnesia. The drugger gave him some of Husband's magnesia, and labeled it as such. In half an hour the purchaser returned, and said he wanted ten cents' worth more. The drugger told him that he had given him a full dose. "I know that," replied the man; "I want this for my Wife !"
