different between lugger vs logger

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

Composed in English of lug +? -er. Attested since the early 17th century.

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
2. One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
3. (slang, Australia, US) A conman. [from 20th century]
4. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

   Synonyms: picker-up, roper, runner, steerer

   • 2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned (page 187)

     An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.

Etymology 2

Likely from lugsail,, but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.

Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of laggar falcon, from Hindi ????? (laggar).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

References

Anagrams

• glurge, gurgle

Danish

Noun

lugger c (singular definite luggeren, plural indefinite luggere)

1. lugger

References

• “lugger” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lugger

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggere, definite plural luggerne)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lugger” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English lugger

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggerar, definite plural luggerane)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

log +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l????/
• Rhymes: -???(r)
• Homophone: lager (with father-bother merger)

Noun

logger (plural loggers)

1. A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees.
2. That which logs, such as a computer program to keep track of events.

Synonyms

• (worker harvesting trees): lumberjack, bush ape (informal, historical slang, British Columbia, Canada)

Derived terms

• key logger, keylogger

Translations

Anagrams

• roggle

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

logger

1. Comparative form of log

Anagrams

• gorgel