Word Direct Answers

What does "pug" mean?

Pug: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  4. 5.A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] Addison.
  5. 6.A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.
  6. 7.An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] Lyly.
  7. 8.pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.
  8. 9.A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
  9. 10.(Zoöl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
  10. 11.(Zoöl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

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