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Trig vs Trog - What's the difference?

trig | trog |

As adjectives the difference between trig and trog

is that trig is true; trusty; trustworthy; faithful while trog is inert, slow.

As a noun trig

is a dandy; coxcomb or trig can be (uncountable) trigonometry or trig can be (uk) a stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

As a verb trig

is to stop (a wheel, barrel, etc) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid or trig can be to fill; to stuff; to cram.

trig

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) trig, tryg, (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(trigger)
  • True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
  • Safe; secure.
  • Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
  • Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
  • *(British Quarterly Review) (1845-1866)
  • *:To sit on a horse square and trig .
  • *1973 , (Newsweek) , April 16
  • *:The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
  • Active; clever.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dandy; coxcomb.
  • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of (trigonometry).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) trigonometry.
  • (countable, informal) A trigonometric point.
  • Etymology 3

    See (trigger).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
  • (Wright)

    Verb

    (trigg)
  • To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
  • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (trigg)
  • To fill; to stuff; to cram.
  • Anagrams

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    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.’
  • Anagrams

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