pug Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
    pug-dog.

WordNet

Pug transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pugged ; present participle & verbal noun Pugging
Definitions
  1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
  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.
Pug noun
Definitions
  1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
  2. A pug mill.
Pug noun
Etymology
Corrupted fr. puck. See Puck.
Definitions
  1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. Obs. B. Jonson.
  2. A name for a monkey. Colloq. Addison.
  3. A name for a fox. Prov. Eng. C. Kingsley.
  4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. Obs. Lyly.
  5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. Obs. Holland.
  6. A prostitute. Obs. Cotgrave.
  7. (Zoöl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
  8. (Zoöl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Webster 1913