rugged up

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To put a rug on a horse
   • The mare was naturally very weak and almost in a state of collapse, so we gave her half a pint of neat whisky, rugged her up, and rubbed her all over with embrocation.1913, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician Volume 8, page 677
2. (Australia, informal, intransitive) To put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up
   • To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing