rug

Noun (1)

rug (plural rugs)

1. A partial covering for a floor.
2. (Australia, UK) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
   • They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254
   • Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297
3. (archaic, historical) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
   • They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I...
4. (archaic, historical) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug.
6. A cloth covering for a horse.
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
8. (slang) The female pubic hair.

   Synonyms:

   carpet, mat

9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
    • The intervening years have been kind to Edward Fox and John Wells, who now assume the principal roles, in allowing them to keep their full complement of hair. Mr Fox shows his gratitude by using his rug as a prop, flopping it forward, Welsh-combing it back, letting it stand up on end as if from...1985 July 12, Martin Cropper, “Theatre: The Philanthropist”, in The Times, number 62,188, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7

    Synonyms:

    toupee, wig

11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair.

Verb

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
   • It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45
2. (Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
   • “this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

Noun (2) capitalized: Rug

UK/ɹʌɡ/

Rug (plural Rugs)

1. (slang) short form of Rugbeian