pug

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pug1

▶noun

• 1 a dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face.

• 2 a small, slender moth which rests with its wings stretched out to the sides. [Eupithecia and other genera.]

– derivatives
puggish adjective,
puggy adjective.

– origin C18: perh. of Low Ger. origin.

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pug2

▶noun loam or clay mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition without air pockets for making bricks or pottery. ▶verb (pugs, pugging, pugged)

• 1 (usu. as adj. pugged) prepare (clay) in this way.

• 2 (usu. as noun pugging) pack (a space) with pug, sawdust, or other material in order to deaden sound.

– origin C19: of unknown origin.

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pug3

▶noun the footprint of an animal. ▶verb (pugs, pugging, pugged) track (an animal) by its footprints.

– origin C19: from Hindi pag ‘footprint’.

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pug4

▶noun informal a boxer.

– origin C19: abbrev. of pugilist.