pug

Senses relating to someone or something small.; A pug dog, a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.

• She […] tells Fibs, makes Miſchief, buys China, cheats at Cards, keeps a Pug-dog, and hates the Parſons; […]
• Meanwhile she arranged her ornaments in the room which she had won too easily. They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea-voyage—china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, […]

Senses relating to someone or something small.; A pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.

Senses relating to someone or something small.; In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.historical

Senses relating to someone or something small.; In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).

Senses relating to someone or something small.; Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.UKarchaicregional

• Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

Senses relating to someone or something small.; Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.UKarchaicregional

• It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

Senses relating to someone or something small.; Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.UKarchaicobsolete

• […] 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: […]

Senses relating to someone or something small.; Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.UKarchaicobsolete

• 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.

Senses relating to someone or something small.; A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).UKrareregional

Senses relating to someone or something small.; A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.USregional

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

The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.

• [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.

To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.BritishIndiaobsolete

• 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 regu

Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).abbreviationalt-ofclipping

• 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.

To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).raretransitive

• 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.

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.transitive

• 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.

To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.transitive

• to pug clay ready for shaping

Of cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.AustraliaNew-Zealandarchaic

To pack or tamp (something) into a small space.Englandalsoarchaic

To pack or tamp into a small space.Englandalsoarchaic

Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.countableuncountable

• A brickfield certainly is not the place for girls and young women to work in; […] the work they have too, at least those who are pug-bearers, often causes indecency; they have to stoop down to the ground to pick the pug up from the bottom o
• The walls of the house were built of "pug," which means simply well-pounded mud, and has the disadvantage of refusing to adhere firmly to the frames of doors and casements, so that the banging of either, in windy weather, is apt to bring la

Ellipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).abbreviationalt-ofcountable

To pull or tug (something).EnglandScotlandWales

• George pugg'd clover in the forenoon.
• Nae thing was prosperin’ there and thrivin’, / But tirlin’ roofs and rafter-rivin’, / And pullin’ down and puggin’; […]

To spoil (something) by touching too much.EnglandScotlandWales

• ["B]e sure not to wet it up too much; make it into twelve doughboys" (dumplings). / "I'm so heavy-handed," Jane remarked at this point, "I always spoil that sort of cookery." / "Tell about heavy-handed!" cried Betsy; "I'll answer for it, I'

Followed by at: to pull or tug.EnglandScotlandWales

The residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.EnglandScotlandUK

Often in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.EnglandScotlandUK

• Radiſh ſeed vvould vvillingly be ſovvne in a looſe or light ground, and natherleſſe moiſt enough: it cannot abide danke mucke, but contenteth it ſelfe vvith rotten chaffe or pugs, and ſuch like plaine mullock.
• The pugg, i.e. the refuſe corne left at winnowinge.