Meaning of ruggy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Frusty, frowsy.
2. Of, relating to, or resembling a rug.

Examples

“The district is mountainous, and the mountains are among the ruggiest on the face of the earth, huge masses of broken crags, precipices many hundreds of feet in height, inaccessible peaks the sides of which are covered with snow that never melts.”

“Hayes is one of the ruggiest men in the game. He has fought most of the cracks of his weight in the country and one or two from England.”

“Fresh air pumped through the ventilators to any degree of temperature, hot or cold, enables the air throughout the entire ship to be changed every eight [?]an, which only serves in most cases to stir up “dead air,” this system is particularly useful during hot seasons, for the air is passed through a cooling system to that every room on board can be kept fresh even in the ruggiest of weather.”

“The labs and golden retrievers replaced the Irish spaniel. Personally, we’re still and always will be a Chesapeake Bay retriever fan—the sturdiest and ruggiest of ’em all.”

“I went over too and we both sat on the ruggy floor and selected discs.”

“Though the sight of her, then, I turning for one last, upward glance, the stairs descended, her legs cut off at the ankle and her propping arms “bled” from the rectangle framing her silhouette, the sight of her, I say, before I turned and pulled open the barking door to the breezy world, still so moves this abandoning heart that a less tension-loving typist would be driven again to the ruggy floor of his padded cell.”

“Everyone but the Terrys had given Alice rugs. It was the ruggiest wedding the world had ever known.”

“Acrilan “Ruggy” Bears (floor samples)”

“THERE ARE RUGS. And there are rugs. And the ruggiest rug in the city, I’m sure, is in the lounge in the sergeants’ mess at Sarcee.”

“Let’s cut a rug! Or give a rug a hug! Or get the ruggiest bug! (We’ve got a slug of decorator rugs!)”

“Then in 1868, a Maine peddler named Edward Sand Frost began stenciling—and selling—his own hooked-rug designs on burlap. Soon, other entrepreneurs followed suit, and the kit craze was off and running. Rather like ruggy versions of paint-by-number sets, these temptingly convenient pre-stenciled patterns were at once a boon to the artistically challenged and a bane to original enterprise.”

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