Middle English Dictionary Entry
tuggen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | tuggen v. Also tug(ge, togge(n & (early) toggi, (in surname) toge-; p. tugged, etc. & tuggut; ppl. tugged, etc. & itugged, itogged, togget. |
| Etymology | Prob. from OE tugon & togen, p.pl. & p.ppl. respectively of tēon; cp. OE togian. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ten v.(1), touen v.
1.
(a) To pull, tug; ?also, take a draught, guzzle [quot. ?a1525]; touch or pluck the strings (of a harp) [1st quot.]; also, pull (sth.) sharply, drag or jerk (sth.) from a fixed position, tug at (sth.); pull off (clothing from sb.); (b) to handle (sb.) roughly, push or pull with hostile intent; mistreat or abuse (sb.) physically;—also without obj. [quot. a1400(?a1325)]; (c) to struggle, scuffle, tussle, ~ mid (with), contend playfully or amorously with (sb.); (d) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1350 Horn (Hrl 2253)14/237 : Stiward, tac þou here my fundling forto lere of þine mestere of wode & of ryuere ant toggen oþe harpe wiþ is nayles sharpe.
- c1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)310 : For his parchemyn-skin was so scant..Wiþ his teeþ he gon hit togge.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)9286 : Whan hys rolle was wryte alle ful, To drawe hyt oute he gan to pul; with hys teþe he gan to drawe, And harde for to tugge and gnawe.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)2289 : Als he hit [weapon] toggid [Ld: tukked] out to habbe, Philot him ȝaf anoþir dabbe.
- ?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)2747 : His clathes fra him sone þai tugged.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)75/297 : He wrot so lung þat he dyd want, And his parchement wex scant..With is teþ he con hit tug.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)495 : Toggyn, or drawyn: Tractulo.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)909 : On þat tronchoun with his teþ he toggeþ & byteþ, Tille hit was piked at þe poynt.
- c1450 As Reson Rywlyde (Lamb 853)8-9 : Hir heer, hir face sche tuggid & rent; Sche tuggid, sche taar with greet turment.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)598 : 'Were ys [my] bowg[e]tt with drynk profytable'..'Here, master, master, ware how ye tugg; The devyll I trowe within shrugge, For yt gooth rebyll rable.'
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9550 : The trunchyn of the tre þai tuggit hym fro, Braid it out bigly, and the buerne deghet.
b
- c1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.61 : Wȝi schope þou me to wroþer hele, To be þus togged and totoren?
- c1390(?a1325) LChart.Chr.A (Vrn)643/76 : To a piler I was I-piht, Togget [vrr. Tuged, I tugged] and tauwed al þe niht.
- a1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)441 : Sum seke aȝens hym fals wytnes..Some tugge [vr. tugge him], sum drawe [vr. drawe him] fro ce to ce.
- a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)169/8 : Þis kyng [Jesus]..was hym self so wonderlich ytogged [Corp-C: ituket] & pyned & þan sleyn on ende.
- a1425(a1349) Rolle MPass.(2) (Upps C.494)37/22 : Swete Ihesu..when þou was taken of þe Iewis..somme pullid þee, summe shouen þee..skorned þee, tugged þee, and torren þee.
- ?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)2653 : Mary so meke and mylde Saw Ihesu, hir awen childe, So tuled and tugged omang þe men.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)352/114 : Faste on a corde, And tugge hym to, by toppe and taile.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)326/23 : Alas, why dyd thay so To tug hym to and fro?
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)315/251 : Alas, whye nyll my liefe forlorne to fynd my sonne here me beforne, tugget, lugget, and all totorne..with nayles thrast and crowne of thorne?
c
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)32/19 : Wið plohe-speche sputte to mare, se longe þet ha toggið & tollið to-gederes.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)218/23 : Heo ne schulen cussen na mon..ne toggin wið [Nero: toggen mid him; Cleo: toggi wið] ne pleien.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)495 : Toggyn, idem quod strogelyn, supra.
- a1475(a1450) Tourn.Tott.(Hrl 5396)199 : Þus þay tugged [vr. tuggut] and rugged.
d
- (1198) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.9206 : Walterus Toggehose.
- (c1230) Deed Swainestrey in Archaeol.Cant.3467 : Stephen Toggehose.
- (c1260) Deed Swainestrey in Archaeol.Cant.3469 : Stephen Togehose.