Pug

[pʌg] or [pʌɡ]

Definition

(noun.) small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle.

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Definition

(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

(v. t.) 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. See Pugging, 2.

(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

(n.) A pug mill.

(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.

(n.) A name for a monkey.

(n.) A name for a fox.

(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.

(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

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Definition

n. clay ground and worked with water.—v.t. to grind with water and make plastic: to line spaces between floors with mortar felt or other deafening.—ns. Pug′ging beating or punching esp. the working of clay for making bricks in a pug-mill: (archit.) clay sawdust plaster &c. put between floors to deaden sound; Pug′-mill a machine for mixing and tempering clay.

n. a monkey: a fox: a small kind of dog: any small animal (in familiarity or contempt).—n. Pug′-dog a small short-haired dog with wrinkled face upturned nose and short tail.—adjs. Pug′-faced monkey-faced; Pug′ging (Shak.) thieving—a misprint for prigging.—n. Pug′-nose (sometimes abbrev. pug) a short thick nose with the tip turned up.

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