Category:Pug

Pug, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging.] Etym: [cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]

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 Pug, n.

1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

2. A pug mill. 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 Pug, n. Etym: [corrupted fr. puck. See puck.]

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.

Defn: chaff; the refuse of grain. [obs.] Holland.

6. A prostitute. [obs.] Cotgrave.

7. (zoöl.)

Defn: one of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; A pug dog.

8. (zoöl.)

Defn: any geometrid moth of the genus eupithecia.