# dug
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: dŭg, IPA: /dʌɡ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌɡ
* Homophone: Doug

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

dug
* simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

##### Derived terms

* dugway
* undug

### Etymology 2

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare also doug.

#### Noun

dug (plural dugs)
* (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.
** 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:First Pig. I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.
* (vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or nipple.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

dug (plural dugs)
* Eye dialect spelling of dog.

### Anagrams

* UDG, gud

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō, *dawwaz (“dew”), cognate with Swedish dagg, English dew, German Tau (“dew”), Dutch dauw.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duɡ/, [ˈd̥uɡ̊]

#### Noun

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)
* dew

##### Declension
#### References

* “dug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dūk, dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, cognate with German Tuch, Dutch doek (Old Norse dúkr is also borrowed from Low German).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duːˀ/, [ˈd̥uˀ]

#### Noun

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)
* tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
* a piece of canvas or cloth
* a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)

##### Derived terms

* damaskdug c
* damaskesdug c
* dugedrejl n
* flagdug c
* kammerdug c
* lysedug c
* netteldug c or n
* olmerdug c
* ravndug c
* sejldug c
* teltdug c
* voksdug c

#### References

* “dug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tuŋke-. Cognate with Finnish tunkea, Erzya тонгомс (tongoms).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈduɡ]
* Rhymes: -uɡ

### Verb

dug
* (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in (into something: -ba/-be)
    Synonym: illeszt
* (transitive) to hide, conceal (into some place: lative suffixes)
    Synonym: (literary) rejt
* (transitive, intransitive, informal) to have sex
    Synonyms: szexel, kefél

#### Derived terms

* dugasz
* dugaszol
* dugít
* dugó
* dugul
* dugvány
(With verbal prefixes):
* átdug
* bedug
* eldug
* feldug
* földug
* kidug
* ledug
* megdug
* odadug
* összedug
* rádug
* visszadug
* homokba dugja a fejét

### Further reading

* dug in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* dug in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Middle English
### Noun

dug
* (rare, Early Middle English) Alternative form of duk (“duke”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

dug
* imperative of duga

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* doag, dogue, dowg (“obsolete”), doug
* duggie (“diminutive”)

### Etymology

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʌɡ/

### Noun

dug (plural dugs)
* dog

### Verb

dug (third-person singular simple present dugs, present participle duggin, simple past duggit, past participle duggit)
* To stand up to; to outlast.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dûːɡ/

#### Noun

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)
* debt

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dílˀgas. Cognate with Czech dlouhý.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dûɡ/

#### Adjective

dȕg (Cyrillic spelling ду̏г, definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī)
* long
    Dugi Otok - Long Island (An Island in the Adriatic sea)

##### Related terms

* dugo
* dugačak

## Sumerian
### Romanization

dug
* Romanization of 𒂁 (dug)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

### Verb

dug
* imperative of duga

### Anagrams

* Gud, gud

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /dɨːɡ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /diːɡ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English duk, itself a borrowing from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

#### Noun

dug m (plural dugiaid, feminine duges)
* duke

##### Derived terms

* dugiaeth (“dukedom; duchy”)

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of dwyn (“to steal”).

#### Verb

dug
* (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dug”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʊɡ/

### Noun

dug (plural duggès)
* dog
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 71:Dinna thar a dug.Don't vex the dog.

#### Derived terms

* dugged

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36