Pug

Quick meaning: Pug is a noun meaning Senses relating to someone or something small.

Meaning

Senses relating to someone or something small.

More Meanings

1. Senses relating to people.
2. (originally British India) The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
3. (informal) Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
4. To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
5. (online gaming) 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”).
6. (transitive, British India, obsolete, rare) To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

Forbid it Venus! From the venal Fair / Snatch every charm, to Hay convert her Locks; / Pug up her nose, and pug-like make her stare; / And pit her pimpled visage with small-pox.

[T]here were the broad, deep puggs of a tiger, up and down the nullah, in the dry sand, near the water's edge, of all ages, from the week, perhaps, up to the unmistakeable fresh puggs of last night.

He [Maxie Rosenbloom] 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.

Agosh! I long to try a bout / With zom o' Burdett's rabble rout; / I'd quickly pug their guts: / I'd gee mun zich a lammin [i.e., violent] lick, / I'd make mun of elections zick; / I'd gee mun all the butts.

Word Forms

• pugs
• pugging
• pugged

Synonyms for pug

Depending on context, synonyms include pug-dog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pug-dog, puggle, pugnose, peke, pibble, pugil.

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