progress.
progressive.
slang food obtained by begging
dialect a Newfoundland word for food
programme
progress
progressive
First recorded in 1560–70; origin uncertain
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He also loved prog rock, but that had made a music career seem unattainable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
They weren't part of a prog rock thing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
She was passionate about a wide range of music, championing genres ranging from prog rock and punk to acid house and grime.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
I think our audiences were largely male, and though I don’t count myself in the nomenclature of prog — hate that word — I would think something in the audiences might have been similar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
There were all manner of good things, and we did them ample justice, even to the Unpaid himself, who certainly seemed to take out in prog what they denied him in salary.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James
In a work already referred to, Clerke's Prog. of Mar.
So: What’s the proggiest prog song that ever progged?
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2012
I sat near and at intervals progged the potatoes.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
If he does he will be sick to death with me, I've been progged three times already this term.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Turley, Charles
Murphy progged his bayonet through the canvas, and sunk the deadly point of the instrument into the bag of potatoes.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
If these catch you without cap or gown, they cause you to be proctorized or "progged," as it is called, which involves a matter of five shillings or so.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?"
From Time Magazine Archive
I would come in from a day of progging for crab, sweating and filthy.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
During the summer of 1941, every weekday morning at the top of the tide, McCall Purnell and I would board my skiff and go progging for crab.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
After Call left, I gave up progging and took over the responsibility of my father’s crab floats.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
It will be no use you and your satellites progging about with skewers for the bullet.
From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton
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