plug

sq-noun

plug m (plural plugje, definite plugu, definite plural plugjet)

plugje (plural)
plugu (definite)
plugjet (definite plural)
plug (indefinite nominative singular)
plugu (definite nominative singular)
plugje (indefinite nominative plural)
plugjet (definite nominative plural)
plug (accusative indefinite singular)
plugun (accusative definite singular)
plugje (accusative indefinite plural)
plugjet (accusative definite plural)
plugu (dative indefinite singular)
plugut (dative definite singular)
plugjeve (dative indefinite plural)
plugjeve (dative definite plural)
plugu (ablative indefinite singular)
plugut (ablative definite singular)
plugjesh (ablative indefinite plural)
plugjeve (ablative definite plural)

From a South Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *plugъ (“plough”), itself of Germanic origin, derived from Proto-West Germanic *plōg (“plough”).
Compare Serbo-Croatian плуг, Bulgarian плуг (plug), and English plough. Replaced parmendë in most dialects, which came to mean “wooden plough”.


plug

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plugъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Compare also Daco-Romanian plug.


plug

wall plug (used to hold nails and screws)

nl-noun

plug m (plural pluggen, diminutive plugje n)

pluggen (plural)
plugje (diminutive neuter)

From early modern plugge, from Middle Dutch *plugge, from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps from the same source as plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Despite being attested only very late, it has certain cognates in several other Germanic languages, including Middle Low German plugge, Middle High German plugge, Swedish plugg.


plug

I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.

(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.

(loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.

Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.

(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!

(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.

Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever.

1886, The Publishers Weekly, volume 29, page 25:

Many New York booksellers promoted the impression that Quaritch had sent only 'plugs' (i.e. unsaleable books).

1997, The Book Collector, volume 46, page 184:

(dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.

(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.

Department store decorations up before Thanksgiving, Christmas cards all over the place, TV full of plugs for fifty-dollar toys that inner-city kids watching can never expect to receive, parents spending what they can't afford and deluging their kids with the annual orgy of materialist values […]

1973 December 8, A. Nolder Gay, “Coping With Christmas”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 3:

During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.

She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.

(slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.

Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.

(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.

The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.

(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.

(jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.

He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]

2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, page 32:

A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

Add front and aft closures to the fuselage midsection. Addition or subtraction of fuselage plugs, to a maximum of five rows, conveniently distributed on each side of wing, is possible.

2010, Ajoy Kumar Kundu, Aircraft Design, page 165:

(aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.

→ Gulf Arabic: بلاك (blāk)

→ Burmese: ပလတ် (pa.lat)

→ Japanese: プラグ (puragu)

From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

unk

unknown


plug

He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.

(transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.

Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.

He [Mike Skinner] treats the gig as an opportunity repeatedly to plug the after-party, where he will be DJing.

2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:

(transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.

Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.

(intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.

1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...

(transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.

I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.

(transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.

(transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.

en-verb

plug (third-person singular simple present plugs, present participle plugging, simple past and past participle plugged)

plugs (present singular third-person)
plugging (participle present)
plugged (participle past)
plugged (past)

unk

unknown


plug

head

plug n (plural plugur, definite singular plugu, definite plural plugurle)

plugur (plural)
plugu (definite singular)
plugurle (definite plural)

From a Slavic language, compare Proto-Slavic *plugъ, itself of Germanic origin.


plug

pluguri (plural)
plug (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
plugul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pluguri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
plugurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
plug (indefinite singular)
plugului (definite singular)
pluguri (indefinite plural)
plugurilor (definite plural)
plugule (singular vocative)
plugurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic плоугъ (plugŭ), from Proto-Slavic *plugъ, itself of Germanic origin.


plug

plȕg (canonical masculine)
плу̏г (Cyrillic)
plȕg (nominative singular)
plùgovi (nominative plural)
pluga (genitive singular)
plugova (genitive plural)
plugu (dative singular)
plugovima (dative plural)
plug (accusative singular)
plugove (accusative plural)
plugu (singular vocative)
pluže (singular vocative)
plugove (plural vocative)
plugu (locative singular)
plugovima (locative plural)
plugom (instrumental singular)
plugovima (instrumental plural)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: پلوغ (pulluğ), փիւլուղ (püluğ) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: pulluk

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plugъ, itself of Germanic origin.


plug

plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)

plȗg (canonical)
plȕg (canonical inanimate masculine)
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plúg (nominative singular)
plúga (dual nominative)
plúgi (nominative plural)
plúga (genitive singular)
plúgov (dual genitive)
plúgov (genitive plural)
plúgu (dative singular)
plúgoma (dative dual)
plúgom (dative plural)
plúg (accusative singular)
plúga (accusative dual)
plúge (accusative plural)
plúgu (locative singular)
plúgih (dual locative)
plúgih (locative plural)
plúgom (instrumental singular)
plúgoma (dual instrumental)
plúgi (instrumental plural)
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plùg (nominative singular)
plúga (dual nominative)
plúgi (nominative plural)
plúga (genitive singular)
plúgov (dual genitive)
plúgov (genitive plural)
plúgu (dative singular)
plúgoma (dative dual)
plúgom (dative plural)
plùg (accusative singular)
plúga (accusative dual)
plúge (accusative plural)
plúgu (locative singular)
plúgih (dual locative)
plúgih (locative plural)
plúgom (instrumental singular)
plúgoma (dual instrumental)
plúgi (instrumental plural)

From Proto-Slavic *plugъ, itself of Germanic origin.