pug

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Etymology 1[edit]

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Noun[edit]

pug (plural pugs)

  1. Term of endearment (probably related to puck). [from the 16th c]
  2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
  3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
  4. A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. [from the 18th c]
  5. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
  6. (obsolete, slang) A pugilist or boxer.
  7. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
  8. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
  9. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Compare German pucken (“to thump, beat”).

Noun[edit]

pug (countable and uncountable, plural pugs)

  1. Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
  2. A pug mill.

Verb[edit]

pug (third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged)

  1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
    to pug clay for bricks or pottery
  2. (transitive) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound.

Etymology 3[edit]

From Hindi पग (pag, “step, foot”), related to Sanskrit पद्य (padya, “foot”) and Greek πόδι (pódi, “foot”).

Noun[edit]

pug (plural pugs)

  1. The footprint of an animal.
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Noun[edit]

pug (plural pugs)

  1. slaughter, slaughtering
  2. butchery, butchering

Declension[edit]

declension of pug
singular plural
nominative pug pugs
genitive puga pugas
dative puge puges
accusative pugi pugis
predicative pugu pugus
vocative o pug! o pugs!

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Terms derived from pug
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