pug
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Is pug a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. Senses relating to someone or something small.historical
2. Senses relating to someone or something small.
3. Senses relating to someone or something small.Examples: "Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel."; "Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper."UKarchaicregional
4. Senses relating to someone or something small.Examples: "It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]"Synonyms: tegUKarchaicregionalspecifically
5. Senses relating to someone or something small.Examples: "[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey."; "Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]"; "Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it."UKarchaicobsoleteregionalspecifically
6. Senses relating to someone or something small.Examples: "[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]"; "That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above."UKarchaicobsoleteregionalspecifically
noun (English)
1. (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”).Internetalt-of
noun (English)
1. (originally British India) The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.Examples: "[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."; "The goat has a square pug with blunt points to his toes, which are always held apart. The sheep's pug is more like that of the boar, being longer than the goat's. […] The boar's pug is distinguished from that of the sow by being much wider in the heel, and having the toes more open, and the rudimentary toes marking the ground more widely apart."; "[D]istinct pugs are found in the dust that surrounds the small swimming-pool which, like amniotic fluid, steeps the guests at their own body temperature. The host is not surprised; it has happened before: the lionesses must have come down to quench their thirst their feasting had given them."
verb (English)
1. (transitive, British India, obsolete, rare) To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.Examples: "Wishing to track a good boar that had got away through some thick cover, we called up the headman of the beat (a man lent to us by a friend) and asked him if he could pug. He was a havildar (sergeant) of police. He replied, 'That is my regular business, sahib; of course I can pug. My work is pugging criminals.'"BritishIndiaobsoleteraretransitive
noun (English)
1. (informal) Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).Examples: "Anyhow I found myself facin' the pug, seein' bright red, and inclined to fight a dozen. I didn't last for more than one round—my game leg cramped me, I suppose. I got one or two on his ugly face, and then I suppose I took a knock-out."; "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."abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "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."raretransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "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."transitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "to pug clay ready for shaping"transitive
4. (transitive)AustraliaNew-Zealandarchaictransitive
5. (transitive)Englandalsoarchaicfigurativelyregionaltransitive
6. (intransitive, England, regional, also figurative, archaic) To pack or tamp into a small space.Englandalsoarchaicfigurativelyintransitiveregional
Definition source: Wiktionary