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pug

See also: PuG

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Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: pŭg, IPA(key): /pʌɡ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1 edit

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portrait of a pug

Noun edit

pug (plural pugs)

  1. 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]
    Synonyms: Chinese pug, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, mini mastiff, mops, carlin, pugdog
  2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
  3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
  4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
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Etymology 2 edit

Corruption of puck, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun edit

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
  2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
  3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]
    • September 24 1600, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, letter:
      the Lo. Admyrall and the Lord Threasurer with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.
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Etymology 3 edit

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

Noun edit

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.
    • 1988, Ken Blady, The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame, page 226:
      He never trained for his characters either: with his slurred speech and disfigured mug he usually portrayed a punch-drunk ex-pug or comic tough guy, roles in which he was a natural.

Etymology 4 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.
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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 5 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 pawprint or footprint of an animal.
    • 1889, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, page 56:
      And on closer investigation the abashed coolies discover that across the great square pug of the tiger runs the delicate tracing of the little field rat's toes […]
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Etymology 6 edit

Probably related to puck.

Noun edit

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]

Etymology 7 edit

Acronym of pickup group.

Noun edit

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal, such as completing a dungeon or a raid)

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Volapük edit

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Noun edit

pug (nominative 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
vocative 1 o pug! o pugs!
predicative 2 pugu pugus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Terms derived from pug
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