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plugg.

a plug (piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole)

5 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. a plug (piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole)

    common-gender

  2. a peg (put in a hole)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish plugger, from Middle Low German plock, pluck. Of uncertain ultimate origin: perhaps from the same ultimate source as Dutch plag (“cut of sod”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps a pre-Germanic (but Indo-European) substrate in which the p- has not undergone Grimm's law; compare Latvian plēst (“to tear off”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *flahaną (“to skin”).

noun

  1. the act or work of studying (from plugga (“to study”))

    colloquial · neuter

  2. school

    colloquial · neuter
    – Var är du? – Jag är i plugget.
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish plugger, from Middle Low German plock, pluck. Of uncertain ultimate origin: perhaps from the same ultimate source as Dutch plag (“cut of sod”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps a pre-Germanic (but Indo-European) substrate in which the p- has not undergone Grimm's law; compare Latvian plēst (“to tear off”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *flahaną (“to skin”).

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