English
pug
Pronunciation Noun

pug (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. [from the 18th c]
    Synonyms: Chinese pug, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, mini mastiff, mops, carlin, pugdog
  2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
  3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
  4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Translations
  • French: carlin
  • German: Mops, Mopshund
  • Italian: carlino
  • Russian: мопс
  • Spanish: doguillo
Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
  2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
  3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]
Synonyms Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (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.
Noun

pug

  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

pug (pugs, present participle pugging; past and past participle pugged)

  1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
    to pug clay for bricks or pottery
  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.
Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal
Synonyms
  • pugmark
Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]


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