pug

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

pug, v. t. [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.].

•  To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

pug, n. 

•  Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.  [1913 Webster]
•  A pug mill.  [1913 Webster]

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.

pug, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See Puck.].

•  An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
•  A name for a monkey.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
•  A name for a fox.  C. Kingsley.  [1913 Webster]
•  An intimate; a crony; a dear one.  Lyly.  [1913 Webster]
•  Chaff; the refuse of grain.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  A prostitute.  Cotgrave.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.  [1913 Webster]

pug, n. [Hind. pag foot.].

 A footprint; a track; as of a boar.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pug, n.
1 (in full pug-dog) a a dwarf breed of dog like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face. b a dog of this breed.
2 a fox.
3 Brit. a small locomotive for shunting etc.

Idiom

pug-nose a short squat or snub nose. pug-nosed having such a nose.

Derivative

puggish adj. puggy adj.

pug, n. & v.
--n. loam or clay mixed and prepared for making bricks, pottery, etc.
--v.tr. (pugged, pugging)
1 prepare (clay) thus.
2 pack (esp. the space under the floor to deaden sound) with pug, sawdust, etc.

Idiom

pug-mill a mill for preparing pug.

Derivative

pugging n.

pug, n. sl. a boxer.

pug, n. & v.
--n. the footprint of an animal.
--v.tr. (pugged, pugging) track by pugs .

Etymology

Hindi pag footprint

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pug

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.