chug

Examples

• All

• The paragraph ends with four short, staccato sentences, like the chug-chug of the train that is about to arrive.

  Academic text (2011)

• Chug, chug, chug went the motor

  That's Entertainment! (1974)

• I heard the noisy diesel chug of a VW van.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I've received a good amount of comments from friends and people I've met when we're screening the film about the almost heartbeat-like chug of this steam engine under this scene.

  3:10 to Yuma (2007)

• Alaska Railroad, complete with a bar car and a double-decker glass-topped viewing car, chugs past jewel-blue glaciers.

  Blog text (25)

• They had been coltish, surging, and bucking through the drifts, blowing chugs of snorts like the steam from trains.

  Fiction book (1997)

• As we sat on the porch, we could hear the distant chug of the old train moving along the tracks.

• The mechanic smiled as he pointed out the chug of the engine, a reassuring sign it was running smoothly.

• In the quiet morning, the only sound was the chug of the boat's motor breaking the silence of the lake.

Synonyms

R

rumble

vschug

29 3.1

A low, continuous sound you can feel

is a dull explosive sound in short steady beats rather than a continuous roar

G

grumble

vschug

1 2.7

A long low dull sound like distant thunder

is caused by a motor as short explosive beats rather than distant natural noise

C

chuff of the exhaust

vschug

9.8

A short, low sound made by an engine when the exhaust pushes out air

is longer and more explosive rather than short muffled pulses

Idioms

P

to plug and chug

• Informal

1 8.2

To find an answer by putting numbers into an equation and doing the math

How Loud

roar

93 1.0

rumble

29 3.1

chug

15 6.4

to rattle

162 2.2

to clunk

6 6.5

Surface Forms

Etymology