different between pug vs vug

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.

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

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

Alternative forms

• vugh
• vogle

Etymology

From Cornish vooga (“cave”); compare fogou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Noun

vug (plural vugs)

1. A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.

Derived terms

• vugginess
• vuggy, vughy

Anagrams

• guv