Pug

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil
     demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.]
     1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry
        wanderer of the night;" -- called also {Robin Goodfellow},
        {Friar Rush}, {Pug}, etc. --Shak.
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              He meeteth Puck, whom most men call
              Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.      --Drayton.
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     2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pug \Pug\, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See {Puck}.]
     1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as {Puck}. [Obs.] --B.
        Jonson.
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     2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] --Addison.
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     3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
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     4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] --Lyly.
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     5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] --Holland.
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     6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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     7. (Zool.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short
        nose and head; a pug dog.
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     8. (Zool.) Any geometrid moth of the genus {Eupithecia}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pug \Pug\, n. [Hind. pag foot.]
     A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]
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     1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery,
        etc.
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     2. 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. See {Pugging}, 2.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pug \Pug\, n.
     1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be
        plastic.
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     2. A pug mill.
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     {Pug mill}, a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay,
        either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It
        consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with
        projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow
        cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pug
       n : small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a
           tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle [syn:
           {pug-dog}]
       [also: {pugging}, {pugged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "pug":
     Chinese boxer, arch, bantamweight, black belt, blocky, boss, boxer,
     brown belt, bruiser, bump, chubby, chunky, clubfoot, colophon,
     concavity, convexity, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, digit, dint,
     dog, dumpy, embossment, excrescence, extremity, fat, featherweight,
     fetlock, fighter, fingerprint, fisticuffer, flyweight, foot,
     footmark, footprint, footstep, forefoot, forepaw, fossil footprint,
     harefoot, heavyweight, heel, hoof, ichnite, ichnolite, impress,
     impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, instep,
     karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, lump, middleweight,
     pad, palooka, pastern, patte, paw, paw print, pawmark,
     pedal extremity, pedes, pes, pied, pimple, podgy, print,
     prizefighter, pudgy, pugged, pugilist, pugmark, retrousse,
     savate expert, seal, sigil, signet, snub-nosed, sole, sparrer,
     splayfoot, squat, squattish, squatty, stamp, step, stocky, stubbed,
     stubby, stud, stumpy, thickset, thumbmark, thumbprint, toe, tootsy,
     trotter, tubby, turned-up, ungula, vestige, welterweight