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Date "CHUGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A form of combustion instability in a rocket engine, characterized by a pulsing operation at a fairly low frequency, sometimes defined as occurring between particular frequency limits; the noise made in this kind of combustion. Also called chuffing, bumping. (references) |
Military & Defense | The characteristic of some rockets to burn intermittently and with an irregular noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Injection of steam(by accident or design)into a pool of subcooled water causes a quasi-periodic growth and collapse of bubbles known as "chugging". The steam generally forms a bubble in the pool and expands. There is then rapid condensation drastically reducing the pressure in the bubble which causes it to collapse. Almost instantaneously this creates pressure waves that propagate through the water and hit the walls of the containment. Repeated collapses, often several in a second, can cause significant structural loads. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CHUGGING |
| Specialty definitions using "CHUGGING": chuffing. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Tractors chugging away in the polar sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "CHUGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.19% of the time. "CHUGGING" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 74.19% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CHUGGING": steam chugging. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CHUGGING": bud-chugging. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chugging | 8 |
chugging cum | 5 |
beer chugging | 4 |
chugging milk | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHUGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | uregelmæssig forbrænding med uregelmæssig støj (chuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ploffen (chuffing), hoesten (cough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rykiminen (chuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | combustion intermittente (chuffing), chouquage, choucage, toux d'une fusée (chuffing), ronflement (chuffing), halètement (chuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | puffend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καύση με διαλείψεις πυραυλοκινητήρα (chuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | combustione irregolare (chuffing), rumorosit intermittente di scarico (chuffing), Implosione delle bolle di vapore (steam chugging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uggingchay crescimento e colapso brusco de bilhas de vapor no tanque de condensação (steam chugging), combustão irregular (chuffing), chuffing (chuffing), som das bolhas de vapor ao atravessarem água fria (steam chugging). (various references) combustión intermitente (chuffing), expulsiones periódicas (steam chugging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CHUGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chuging, Chungang, kegging, thugging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHUGGING" (pronounced khu"ging) |
| 4 | -u" g i ng | bugging, debugging, drugging, hugging, lugging, mugging, plugging, shrugging, slugging, snugging, tugging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, cataloging, cataloguing, clogging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, slogging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-g-g-h-i-n-u" | |
-1 letter: hugging. | |
-3 letters: cuing. | |
-4 letters: chin, chug, huic, hung, inch, nigh, unci. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, ghi, gig, gin, gnu, gun, hic, hin, hug, hun, ich, ugh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-g-g-h-i-n-u" | |
+4 letters: chugalugging. | |
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