English Explanatory Dictionary

pug

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Senses relating to someone or something small.
  2. In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
  3. In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
  4. In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
  5. In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
  6. Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
  7. Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).
  8. An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
  9. A fox.
  10. A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
  11. A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
  12. A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a 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”).
noun
  1. The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
verb
  1. To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
noun
  1. Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
verb
  1. To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
  2. To fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun etymology 5, noun sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.
  3. To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
  4. Of cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.
  5. To pack or tamp (something) into a small space.
  6. To pack or tamp into a small space.
noun
  1. Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.
  2. Ellipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).
verb
  1. To pull or tug (something).
  2. To spoil (something) by touching too much.
  3. Followed by at: to pull or tug.
noun
  1. The residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.
  2. Often in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.
noun
  1. Acronym of pickup group (“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”).
verb
  1. To participate in structured content of an online game as part of a pickup group.

Pronunciation

pŭg /pʌɡ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pug.wav

Word forms

pug pugs pugging pugged PuGing PuGed

Etymology

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source. Etymology 1 sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

Synonyms

carlin Chinese pug Dutch bulldog Dutch mastiff mini mastiff mops teg goblin hobgoblin abandons alley cat almah bangtail Bankside lady bargirl bat beotch blouze blowen blowsabella brass nail brasser brass broad business girl calico queen callet cat chippy chromo coaster cockatrice cocotte comfort girl comfort woman commoner Covent Garden nun creature of the night croshabell daughter of joy dollymop doxy drab Dutch widow escort fille de joie flap floozie fornicatrix frail sister Fulham virgin gamester gay lady geebag gillian gill girl rented overnight good-time girl GRO hackney

Related words

puggy

Derived words

Chinese pug chug jug pudge pugeranian puggish puggishness puggy puglet puglike pug nose pug-nosed pugship pug-ugly pugged puggle pugmark pugging pug and pine pugger pugmill pug mill pug soil

Translations

Finnish: pentu
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