Lexicographical Neighbors of Progged
Literary usage of Progged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"The pin is progged in between the leaves by the player. Progger, a butcher's
stabbing knife. ..."
2. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1842)
"... and progged under the bed with a pike, and never touched me, and there I
lay —and lucky it was for me that the man who slept in that bed was tipsy. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"By common consent all the forks are dipped simultaneously into the central dish,
and bits are progged out and conveyed to the lips without any unnecessary ..."
4. The Bookman (1898)
"We laughed and progged them off with the long-handled axes to get free play with
the fusils, and one after another of them fell off, wounded or dead. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1883)
"... the other end of the boat, and Symington was progged in the shoulders with an
occasional oar. " Will ye no' be letting him see't?" the rowers said. ..."
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