EGAVE

pug

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Phuie.
  2. noun 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. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. noun 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. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  4. noun A pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
  5. noun In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
  6. noun 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”).
  7. noun Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon. Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”). An ape, a monkey; also a human child. A fox.
  8. noun Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).

Similar words

pug-dog pug nose puggle pugnose peke pibble pugil peekapoo pugillaris pekepoo

Often followed by

nose mill dog and marks was said is dogs

Word family

pugged pugging pugs

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