lugger
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lugger¹
- /ˈlʌɡə/ UK
- /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ US
Sounds like laggar · Rhymes with -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs).
noun luggers
- Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). Tireur: […] A dravver, puller, plucker, baler, lugger, tugger, tovver; […]
- A person whose job involves moving or pulling heavy objects. Micheal Kelleher was employed by the Swift Co., on Sept. 10, 1914, as a meat lugger. While engaged in carrying meat to the storage plant elevator a tag fastener was tossed toward him by a fellow employe. It struck him over the right eye. He lost the sight of the eye.
- A person hired to locate potential customers and bring them to a gambling establishment. The feds also figured that the casino's annual payroll was $350,000. An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
- A rower who tends to rely on strength rather than technique. The Canadian [Ned] Hanlan represents what since the introduction of the slide may be called the scientific side of sculling; his Australian competitor [Elias Connell Laycock], though by no means such a mere "lugger" as his countryman [Edward] Trickett, trusts much less to style and mechanical finish
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A con artist.
Similar: charlatan, con artist, conman, duper, fraud, fraudster, grifter, hustler, lugger, scammer, shyster, snake oil salesman
verb luggers · luggering · luggered
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Synonym of lug (“to drag or haul (someone or something, especially when heavy); to carry, to pull”).
But once as I vvent luggering home my load, / I ſavv tvvo Maſtives [mastiffs] fighting in the Road; […]
Similar: lug
- To tease (someone).
- To move heavily while, or as if, laden with goods; to lumber. Up into that jumble of shacks with the trail snaking amidst came the ox-cart caravans of the priests, luggering along with goods for the mission at the Cathedral of St. Albert on the Sturgeon.
lugger²
- /ˈlʌɡə/ UK
- /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ US
Sounds like laggar · Rhymes with -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
noun luggers
- A small sailing vessel having two or three masts and a running bowsprit, carrying lugsails. pearling lugger
verb luggers · luggering · luggered
- To sail a lugger (etymology 2, noun sense 1). [H]e has luggered all through Indonesia, from New Guinea to Singapore, and fluently speaks Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and a dozen dialects of Malay. Happening to be in Darwin with his lugger when the war started, he promptly enlisted in the hope of seeing overseas service; but a tropic linguist is
lugger³
- /ˈlʌɡə/ UK
- /ˈlʌɡəɹ/ US
Sounds like laggar · Rhymes with -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
A variant of laggar.
noun luggers
- Alternative form of laggar (“the jugger (Falco jugger), a mid-sized falcon native to the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, Iran, and Myanmar”). Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with.
Translations
Talk about this word "lugger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lugger. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lugger. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lugger "lugger." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lugger.Cite this
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title = {lugger},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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