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noun
Idiom1.
a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
2.
the treated skin of an animal, used as a floor covering: a bear rug.
3.
Chiefly British. a piece of thick, warm cloth, used as a coverlet, lap robe, etc.
4.
Slang. toupee; hairpiece.
5.
cut a rug, Older Slang. to dance, especially to jitterbug.
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Origin:
1545–55; < Old Norse rǫgg wool, long hairs; compare Norwegian rugga covering of coarse wool, Swedish rugg coarse hair
1545–55; < Old Norse rǫgg wool, long hairs; compare Norwegian rugga covering of coarse wool, Swedish rugg coarse hair
Related forms
rug·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History
rug
1551, "coarse fabric," of Scand. origin, cf. Norw. dial. rugga "coarse coverlet," from O.N. rogg "shaggy tuft," probably related to rag and perhaps also rough. Sense evolved to "coverlet, wrap" (1591), then "mat for the floor" (1808). Meaning "toupee" is theater slang from 1940. Cut a rug "dance" is
EXPAND slang first attested 1942. To sweep (something) under the rug in the fig. sense is from 1961. Rug-rat "baby, child" is from 1968.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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