puggy
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puggy (comparative puggier, superlative puggiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog.
- a puggy nose
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC; republished as chapter 2, in Burmese Days (ebook no. 0200051h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, November 2015:
- Mr Macgregor was a large, heavy man, rather past forty, with a kindly, puggy face, […]
- (Australia, New Zealand) sticky, claylike
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- (sticky): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
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puggy
- Alternative form of puggie (“slot machine”)