Puggle

Quick meaning: Puggle is a verb meaning (UK, regional) To poke around a hole with a stick, as to explore, remove obstacles, etc.

Meaning

(UK, regional) To poke around a hole with a stick, as to explore, remove obstacles, etc.

More Meanings

1. A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a pug and beagle.
2. (UK, regional) To coax (a rabbit) from a burrow by poking a stick down the hole and moving it about; to delve into a hole in order to locate an animal.
3. (chiefly Australia) A baby monotreme (echidna or platypus).

Example Sentences

Larger furred/spined puggles can be held in a wooden box with shredded paper.

He puggled around in the oil cavity with his little lead pencil until it slipped out of his fingers and went down into the oil cavity.

2003, Robert Burton, The International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, Volume 18: SOL-SWA, page 2488, The puggle, which grows rapidly, remains in the pouch until its spines are sufficiently developed that the mother must eject it.

2009, Milwaukee Magazine, Volume 34, Issues 1-6, page 67, The menagerie for sale at this auction included two black puggles with hernias, a French bulldog with one ear, a 3-month old Yorkshire terrier with only one testicle and a badly bow-legged bulldog.

Word Forms

• puggles
• puggling
• puggled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include piggle, broggle, progue, poke, potter, grobble.

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