different between pug vs jade

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?g, IPA^(key): /p??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

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Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. [from the 18th c]

   Synonyms: Chinese pug, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, mini mastiff, mops, carlin, pugdog

2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain

   • rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock

4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Derived terms

• pug nose
• pug-nosed
• pug-ugly

Translations

Etymology 2

Corruption of puck, from Old English p?ca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.

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2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.
   • 1988, Ken Blady, The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame (page 226)

     He never trained for his characters either: with his slurred speech and disfigured mug he usually portrayed a punch-drunk ex-pug or comic tough guy, roles in which he was a natural.

Etymology 4

Compare German pucken (“to thump, beat”).

Noun

pug (countable and uncountable, plural pugs)

1. Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
2. A pug mill.

Verb

pug (third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged)

1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.

   to pug clay for bricks or pottery

2. (transitive) 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.

Etymology 5

From Hindi ?? (pag, “step, foot”), related to Sanskrit ???? (padya, “foot”) and Greek ???? (pódi, “foot”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal

Synonyms

• pugmark

Etymology 6

Probably related to puck.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]

Anagrams

• GPU, gup

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?]

Noun

pug (nominative plural pugs)

1. slaughter, slaughtering
2. butchery, butchering

Declension

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)

Noun

jade (usually uncountable, plural jades)

2. A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

   Synonyms: jadestone, jade stone, yu

3. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

   Synonym: jade green

4. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.

   Synonyms: jade plant, lucky plant, money plant, money tree

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Adjective

jade (not comparable)

1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha ????? (el?de) or Erzya ????? (el?de). See yaud for more.

Noun

jade (plural jades)

1. A horse too old to be put to work.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume I, Chapter 10, p. 36,^[2]

     Let that be as it may, as my purpose is to do exact justice to every creature brought upon the stage of this dramatic work,—I could not stifle this distinction in favour of Don Quixote’s horse;—in all other points the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another,—for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as HUMILITY herself could have bestrided.

   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 11,^[3]

     My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

   Synonyms: nag, yaud

2. (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,^[4]

     You always end with a jade’s trick: I know you of old.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 14,^[5]

     However, what she withheld from the Infant, she bestowed with the utmost Profuseness on the poor unknown Mother, whom she called an impudent Slut, a wanton Hussy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to lash those who bring a Disgrace on the Sex.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:

     ‘You shall pay me for the plague of having you eternally in my sight—do you hear, damnable jade?’

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:

     Sir Pitt Crawley was a philosopher with a taste for what is called low life. His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her lifetime she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bred jade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort ...

Synonyms

• (bad-tempered woman): See Thesaurus:shrew or Thesaurus:woman

Translations

Verb

jade (third-person singular simple present jades, present participle jading, simple past and past participle jaded)

1. To tire, weary or fatigue

   • The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, […] checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

2. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
3. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

Synonyms

• (to tire): See Thesaurus:tire

Derived terms

• jaded

Translations

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja?d?/, [?jæ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

jade c (singular definite jaden, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) jade

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?de/, [?j?de?]
• Rhymes: -?de
• Syllabification: ja?de

Noun

jade

1. (mineralogy) jade

Declension

French

Etymology

Rebracketed from earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad/

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. jade

Descendants

Further reading

• “jade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• déjà

Portuguese

Etymology

From French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad?i

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. jade (gem)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jade (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of jad

Spanish

Etymology

From French jade, back formation from le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (literally “flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xade/, [?xa.ð?e]

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. (mineralogy) jade

Derived terms

• jadeíta

Anagrams

• deja