pug
Senses relating to someone or something smallSenses 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.
» Pugs are a kind of dog.
Meaning
20 sensesSenses 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.
Mops, Mopshund
мопсmops
мопсmops
small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
A pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
(historical)In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
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”).
(UK, rare, regional)A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
(US, regional)A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
Senses relating to people.
(UK, historical)Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Senses relating to someone or something small.
(UK, archaic, regional)Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
(UK, archaic, regional, specifically)Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).
(UK, archaic, obsolete, regional, specifically)An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
Examples
6 sentencesPugs are a kind of dog.
A toad looked out of every fold in her dress, croaking like an asthmatic pug dog.
Pugs are not cute.
ruМопсы не милашки.
deMöpse sind nicht herzig.
The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.
I woke up to my Pug licking my face.
Translations
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Origin
Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short pOrigin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
The noun is borrowed from Hindi पग (pag, “step; (less common) foot; leg”), from Old Hindi पगु (pagu), from Sanskrit पद्ग (padga), from पद् (pad, “step; foot”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step; to walk; to fall; to stumble”)) + ग (ga, stem at the ends of compounds denoting going or moving) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)).
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly:
From Late Middle English pugge (“husk of grain”); further etymology unknown, possibly related to pug (verb) (see etymology 5). However, the latter is only attested much later.
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