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Webster 1913 Edition

Prog

Prog

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Progged
.
p. pr. & vb. n.
Progging
.]
[Cf. D.
prachen
, G.
prachern
, Dan.
prakke
, Sw.
pracka
, to beg, L.
procare
,
procari
, to ask, demand, and E.
prowl
.]
1.
To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
[Low]
A perfect artist in
progging
for money.
Fuller.
I have been endeavoring to
prog
for you.
Burke.
2.
To steal; to rob; to filch.
[Low]
Johnson.
3.
To prick; to goad; to progue.
[Scot.]

Prog

,
Noun.
1.
Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
[Slang]
Swift.
So long as he picked from the filth his
prog
.
R. Browning.
2.
A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
[Slang]
3.
A goal; progue.
[Scot.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Prog

PROG

,
Verb.
I.
[L. proco, procor.]
1.
To shift meanly for provisions; to wander about and seek provisions where they are to be found; to live by beggarly tricks. [A low word.]
You are the lion; I have been endeavoring to prog for you.

PROG

,
Noun.
Victuals or provisions sought by begging or found by wandering about.
1.
Victuals of any kind. [A low word.]

PROG

,
Noun.
One that seeks his victuals by wandering and begging.

Definition 2024

Prog

Prog

See also: prog, próg, and prog.

English

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviation): Prog.
  • (politics): PROG

Proper noun

Prog

  1. (politics) Abbreviation of Progressive Party.

Proper noun

Prog ‎(plural Progs)

  1. (politics) Abbreviation of Progressive.

prog

prog

See also: Prog, próg, and prog.

English

Adjective

prog ‎(not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of progressive.
    • 2003, Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos
      Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves ...

Noun

prog ‎(plural progs)

  1. (music) Progressive rock
    He listens to a lot of prog.‎
  2. (computing, informal) A program.
    • 2001, "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp (on newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk)
      […] is there some way to connect to my new comp so I can transfer some of the software progs […]
    • 2001, "Yoda", How do I get progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up? (on newsgroup linux.redhat)
    • 2003, "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups? (on newsgroup microsoft.public.win98.apps)
      I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.
  3. (Britain, universities, slang, dated) proctor
  4. (informal, politics) Synonym of progressive
Derived terms

Etymology 2

A variant of proke.

Noun

prog ‎(countable and uncountable, plural progs)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
  2. (slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
    • Fuller
      a perfect artist in progging for money
    • Burke
      I have been endeavouring to prog for you.
  2. (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
  3. (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porgъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian próh, Polish próg, Czech práh, Old Church Slavonic прагъ ‎(pragŭ, “doorpost”), Russian поро́г ‎(poróg).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [prɔk]

Noun

prog m

  1. threshold (bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter)

Declension

References

  • prog in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Etymology

Abbreviations.

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