pug

Meanings

Plural: pugs

Noun

• small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• In full 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.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• 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”).
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• 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”).
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
• An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
• A fox.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
• Senses relating to someone or something small.
• A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.
• Senses relating to people.
• Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
• Senses relating to people.
• A mistress, or a female prostitute; also (generally, derogatory) a woman.
• Senses relating to people.
• A term of endearment for a person, or sometimes an animal or a toy such as a doll.
• Senses relating to people.
• A bargeman.
• Senses relating to people.
• A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.
• Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”).
• The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
• Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
• 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.
• Ellipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).
• The residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.
• Often in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.

Verb

• To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
• To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
• To fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.
• To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
• Of cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.
• To pack or tamp (something) into a small space.
• To pack or tamp into a small space.
• To pull or tug (something).
• To spoil (something) by touching too much.
• Followed by at: to pull or tug.

Synonyms

'ho, abandons, alley cat, almah, babe, baggage, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargee, bargirl, bat, beotch, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blone, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, carlin, cat, chick, Chinese pug, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, covess, creature of the night, croshabell, dame, daughter of joy, dollymop, donna, doxy, drab, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, Dutch widow, escort, feme, femme, femoid, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, frau, frow, Fulham virgin, gal, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gentlelady, gill, gillian, ginch, girl rented overnight, goblin, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hen, hireling, ho, hobgoblin, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, huwoman, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, maness, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, mini mastiff, minx, mob, moll, mops, mort, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, mulier, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, placket, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, pug-dog, punk, pussy, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, queen, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, she, sheila, skainsmate, skirt, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, squaw, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, teg, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, twist, tía, vaginoid, vice girl, wan, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, wife, wimmin, woman, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, working girl