pug
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: pŭg, IPA(key): /pʌɡ/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌɡ
Etymology 1
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Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- 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
- A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
- (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:
- rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock
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- Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Derived terms
- foxglove pug (Eupithecia pulchellata)
- pug nose
- pug-nosed
- pug-ugly
- wormwood pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)
Translations
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Etymology 2
Corruption of puck, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).
Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
- The great diuell. Pvg. The lesse diuell.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
- An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
- 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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Synonyms
- (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.
Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- (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.
- 1988, Ken Blady, The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame (page 226)
Etymology 4
Compare German pucken (“to thump, beat”).
Noun
pug (countable and uncountable, plural pugs)
- Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
- A pug mill.
Verb
pug (third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged)
- (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
- to pug clay for bricks or pottery
- (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
From Hindi पग (pag, “step, foot”), related to Sanskrit पद्य (padya, “foot”) and Greek πόδι (pódi, “foot”).
Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- 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 […]
- 1889, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Pigsticking (page 56)
Synonyms
- pugmark
Etymology 6
Probably related to puck.
Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]
Etymology 7
Acronym of pickup group.
Noun
pug (plural pugs)
- (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)
Anagrams
- GPU, gup
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [puɡ]
Noun
pug (nominative plural pugs)
- slaughter, slaughtering
- butchery, butchering
Declension
singular | plural | |
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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
Related terms
- benohipugan
- benojipugan
- benopugan
- benopugön
- hipugan
- jevodihipugan
- jevodijipugan
- jevodipugan
- jipugan
- mipug
- mipugam
- mipugön
- pugadel
- pugamaskar
- pugamastan
- pugahimastan
- pugajimastan
- pugam
- pugamon
- pugan
- puganacüd
- puganeif
- pug ritulik
- pugasakrifot
- pugastum
- pugastumem
- pugatrip
- pugazälafided
- pugazälasup
- pugazälazibäd
- pugotavetot
- pugöf
- pugöfik
- pugön
- pugön rituliko
- pugöp