pug

Meaning

Noun

1. Senses relating to someone or something small.
2. Senses relating to someone or something small.
3. (historical) Senses relating to someone or something small.
4. Senses relating to someone or something small.
5. (UK, archaic, regional) Senses relating to someone or something small.
6. (UK, archaic, regional, specifically) Senses relating to someone or something small.
7. (UK, archaic, obsolete, regional, specifically) Senses relating to someone or something small.
8. (UK, archaic, obsolete, regional, specifically) Senses relating to someone or something small.
9. (UK, rare, regional) Senses relating to someone or something small.
10. (US, regional) Senses relating to someone or something small.
11. (obsolete) Senses relating to someone or something small.
12. (UK, historical) Senses relating to people.
13. (obsolete) Senses relating to people.
14. (endearing, obsolete) Senses relating to people.
15. (obsolete) Senses relating to people.
16. (obsolete) Senses relating to people.

Verb

To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.

Verb

1. (rare, transitive) To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
2. (transitive) 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.
3. (transitive) To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
4. (Australia, New-Zealand, archaic, transitive) Of cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.
5. (England, also, archaic, figuratively, regional, transitive) To pack or tamp (something) into a small space.
6. (England, also, archaic, figuratively, intransitive, regional) To pack or tamp into a small space.

Verb

1. (England, Scotland, Wales, Western, transitive) To pull or tug (something).
2. (England, Scotland, Wales, Western, obsolete, transitive) To spoil (something) by touching too much.
3. (England, Scotland, Wales, Western, intransitive) Followed by at: to pull or tug.

Synonyms

pug-dog

track

spoor

foot-mark

footprint

👣

form

impression

lapdog

lap dog

mark

mud

print

prize fighter

puck

pugilist

pug-nosed

set

slime

slot

sprite

work

foot-print

hoof-mark

hoof-print

prise fighter

pugmill

boxer

model, to

bruiser

clay

exteriorize

forge

Translations

carlin

mopshond

Mops

mops

pug

carlino

pug

Boxer

camus

pug

μπουλντόγκ

πηλός

πυγμάχος

schmieden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʌɡ/

Etymology

Cognate with West Flemish: pugge

Cognate with Dutch: puggen

Cognate with German: pucken

Inherited from Middle English: pugge

In summary

Origin 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.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.