English Dictionary

prog

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɒɡ/

動詞

廃用 動物 通常 俗語 スコットランド英語

(obsolete, usually of an animal) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).

日本語の意味

（動物が）自分で餌を摂り、自らの世話をする / （家畜と対比して）自立して生活する、自給自足する

When winter came, the orphaned fox had to prog to survive in the frozen woods.

冬が来ると、親を失ったキツネは凍りついた森で生き延びるために自分で餌を取って暮らさなければならなかった。

意味（1）

(obsolete, usually of an animal) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).

To be wise about affares of this life (these fleeting, these empty, these deceitful shadows) is a sorry wisdom; to be wise in purveying for the flesh, is the wisdom of a beast, which is wise enough to prog for its sustenance;

意味（2）

(obsolete) To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.

They abuse what light of Reason they have, rendring it a slave to those brutish powers of life (it ought to direct and rule over ) so as to prog about and fetch in provisions for them.

意味（3）

(obsolete, slang) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.

a perfect artist in progging for money

意味（4）

(obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.

And hence we may take it for granted, there will always be some lavish People in every Prince's Court, where a Royal Table is kept, to waste and confound; to prog for themselyes, and regale their Friends, and to destroy more in one Day, by their clandestine Tricks, than would ine half the CROWN'D HEADS in Europe. But imbeziling of Belly-Timber, they think is no such extraordinary Offence in a Palace, tithout any Regard all the While to Conscience and Honour, or the King they cheat.

意味（5）

(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.

An' on his royal paunches thole A dwarf to prog him wi' a pole; While he wad shaw his fangs, an' rage Wi' bootless wrangling in his cage.

progs （ present singular third-person ）

progging （ participle present ）

progged （ participle past ）

progged （ past ）