Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chug
nounchugging (plural chuggings)
plural chuggings
- The sound of something that chugs.
From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.
1997, Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West, page 51 more example
There was a Thompson class "B1" in Birmingham New Street, and an ex-Great Eastern class "B12/3" in the Midland station at Leicester, where the contented chugging of its Westinghouse air-compressor struck an exotic note.
1955 July, R. S. McNaught, “"Foreign" Engine Workings”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with chugging
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