tugとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 tuggen, toggen, from 古期英語 togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”).

Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.

動詞

tug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.

   The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

2. (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.

   He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

3. (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
4. (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.

派生語

名詞

tug (plural tugs)

1. A sudden powerful pull.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.

   • 1996 September, Doreen Drury, “The Gay Capital of the World”, in Gay Community News, page 22:

     Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel that tug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.

   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎:

     But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.

2. (nautical) A tugboat.
   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:

     Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

3. A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
   • 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “Ro Ro Rail takes the freight train to Spain”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 49:

     Trailers are delivered by road to Poole, Portsmouth, or Rosslare in Ireland. They are then loaded onto ferries by dockyard tractors called "tugs". After crossing the Channel, the driverless loads are disembarked by tug and taken to the specially constructed freight terminal in Cherbourg port. Each rail wagon holds two lorry trailers and features a new 'pivoting pocket' which moves through 45° to allow the tug to push the trailer onto the wagon from alongside.

4. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
   • 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:

     Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug

5. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
6. A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
7. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
8. (slang) An act of male masturbation.

   He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

派生語

語源 2

Related to toga.

名詞

tug (plural tugs)

1. (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.

派生語

• tuggery

アナグラム

• GUT, Gut, UTG, gut