Definition of "pug"

pug¹

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
2. A bargeman.
3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
  Quotations
  rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock
  1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635
4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

pug²

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
  Quotations
  The great diuell. Pvg. The lesse diuell.
  1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
2. An upper servant in a great house.
3. A harlot; a prostitute.
  Quotations
  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.
  September 24 1600, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, letter

pug³

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. (informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.
  Quotations
  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

pug⁴

/pʌɡ/

noun
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.
verb
third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged
1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
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.

pug⁵

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal.
  Quotations
  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

pug⁶

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. (obsolete) A term of endearment.

pug⁷

/pʌɡ/

noun
plural pugs
1. (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)

Definition of "pug"

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