chug
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6.4
- noun
- /tʃʌg/
:
traqueteo
- The chug of the trains now shakes the entire house.
I did some movies, but it's still like a slow, calm chug along.
- I did some movies, but it's still like a slow, calm chug along.
Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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The mechanic smiled as he pointed out the chug of the engine, a reassuring sign it was running smoothly.
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In the quiet morning, the only sound was the chug of the boat's motor breaking the silence of the lake.
Synonyms
29
3.1
A low, continuous sound you can feel
2
2.7
A long low dull sound like distant thunder
A short, low sound made by an engine when the exhaust pushes out air
Idioms
- Informal
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How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chug comes from the sound people made to copy the heavy 'chug-chug' noise of an engine or machine. So a chug is the dull, repeating sound you hear from an old train or tractor.