progging

Verb (1)

prog (third-person singular simple present progs, present participle progging, simple past and past participle progged)

1. To programme.
2. To prognosticate; to forecast.
   • The thermodynamics of this system are progged to be similar to the "surprise" epic Oct 2006 Buffalo, NY lake effect snow event.

Verb (2)

prog (third-person singular simple present progs, present participle progging, simple past and past participle progged)

1. (obsolete, usually) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).
   • To be wise about affares of this life (these fleeting, these empty, these deceitful shadows) is a sorry wisdom; to be wise in purveying for the flesh, is the wisdom of a beast, which is wise enough to prog for its sustenance;1716, Isaac Barrow, The Works. Published by John Tillotson, page 26
2. (obsolete) To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.
   • They abuse what light of Reason they have, rendring it a slave to those brutish powers of life (it ought to direct and rule over ) so as to prog about and fetch in provisions for them.1680, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher, page 345
3. (obsolete, slang) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.
   • a perfect artist in progging for money1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
4. (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
   • And hence we may take it for granted, there will always be some lavish People in every Prince's Court, where a Royal Table is kept, to waste and confound; to prog for themselyes, and regale their Friends, and to destroy more in one Day, by their clandestine Tricks, than would ine half the CROWN'D...1708, Daniel Defoe, The Union-Proverb: Viz. If Skiddaw Has a Cap, Scruffell Wots full well of That, page 302

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