Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cavity in a rock or vein, often with a mineral lining of different composition from that of the surrounding rock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a cavity; a hollow in a rock or in a lode. Vug is the miners' name for that which geologists more generally call a geode. See
geode . Also called tick-hole, vooga-hole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small to medium-sized
cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Cornish vooga.]
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From Cornish vooga ("cave"). Compare fogou.
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Examples
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When pressed, in front of a live audience with the clock ticking, are you certain you could spell vug?
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When pressed, in front of a live audience with the clock ticking, are you certain you could spell vug?
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whichbe commented on the word vug
A small unfilled cavity in a lode or in rock.
May 11, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word vug
A borrowing into English via Cornish tin miners. Cornish vooga meant "cave". Less commonly spelled vugg or vugh.
January 2, 2009
qms commented on the word vug
The Cornish are proud of what they have dug.
About holes they can be insufferably smug.
Where a Vectian bloke
May dig but a doke
A Cornishman might uncover a vug.
July 5, 2014
Gammerstang commented on the word vug
(noun) - (1) A cavity in a rock; a cave, a hollow; adaptation of Cornish mining term vooga; hence, vuggy, full of cavities. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928 (2) Vughy rock, a stratum of cellular structure, or one containing many cavities. --William Gresley's Glossary of Terms Used in Coal Mining, 1883
April 23, 2018