pug

• enPR: pŭg, IPA^(key): /pʌɡ/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

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pug (plural pugs)

1. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
2. 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

3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain

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4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

• pug nose
• pug-nosed

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

pug (plural pugs)

1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.

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2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]

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• (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

pug (plural pugs)

1. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

pug (plural pugs)

1. The pawprint / footprint of an animal

• pugmark

Probably related to puck

pug (plural pugs)

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

• GPU, gup

• IPA^(key): [puɡ]

pug (plural pugs)

1. slaughter, slaughtering
2. butchery, butchering