pug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭg
ipa: /pʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: pugs
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: She […] tells Fibs, makes Miſchief, buys China, cheats at Cards, keeps a Pug-dog, and hates the Parſons; […]
ref: 1740 (first performance), David Garrick, Lethe. A Dramatic Satire. […], Dublin: […] S. Powell, [f]or G. and A. Ewing, G. Faulkner, J. Hoey, J. Exshaw, J. Exdall, and R. James, […], published 1749, →OCLC, page 21:
text: Meanwhile she arranged her ornaments in the room which she had won too easily. They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea-voyage—china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, […]
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
synonyms: carlin
Chinese pug
Dutch bulldog
Dutch mastiff
mini mastiff
mops
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
examples: text: Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.
ref: 1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:
text: Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.
ref: 1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
examples: text: It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]
ref: 1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).
synonyms: word: teg
extra: (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)
examples: text: […] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.
ref: 1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:
text: Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]
ref: 1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:
text: Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]
ref: 1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
examples: text: [T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]
ref: 1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
text: That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.
ref: 1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
A fox.
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
examples: text: Satan. The great diuell. / Pvg. The leſſe diuell.
ref: 1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, “The Persons of the Play”, in The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 93:
text: In Iohn Mileſius any man may reade / Of Diuels in Sarmatia honored, / Call'd Kottri, or Kibaldi; ſuch as vvee / Pugs and Hob-goblins call.
ref: 1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Ninth Tractat: The Angell”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 574:
text: This is your Buſineſs Good Pug Robin, / And your Diverſion, dull Dry Bobbing: / T' intice Fanaticks in the Dirt, / And vvaſh 'em clean in Ditches for't.
ref: 1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “Canto I”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Simon Miller, […], →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Senses relating to someone or something small.
A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.
synonyms: goblin
hobgoblin
examples: text: Procedure would vary a little from household to household. Thus, the roast might be ceremonially borne out ahead of the departing ‘Pugs,’ or it might be left behind so that the lower servants could have second helpings.
ref: 1962, E[rnest] S[ackville] Turner, “The Female Branch”, in What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem, London: Michael Joseph, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Senses relating to people.
Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
examples: text: [R]emember the Lo[rd] Admyrall [Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham] and the Lord Threasurer [Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset] with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh [i.e., usquebaugh or whiskey] or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.
ref: 1600 October 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Cecil, “[Letter] X”, in John MacLean, editor, Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew (Camden Series; 88), [London]: […] [John Bowyer Nichols and Sons] for the Camden Society, published 1864, →OCLC, page 33:
text: So euery lip has his Lettice to himſelfe: […] the VVeſterne-man his Pug, the Seruing-man his Punke, […]
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act II, signature D, recto:
text: In the vigor of his age he married Gargamelle, daughter to the King of the Parpaillons, a jolly pug, and well mouthed wench.
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], “How Gargantua was Carried Eleven Moneths in His Mothers Belly”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 17:
text: [C]ome, let's to bed—you Fubbs, you Pugg you—you little Puſs—Purree Tuzzey—I am a Senator.
ref: 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act III, scene [i], page 25:
glosses: Senses relating to people.
A mistress, or a female prostitute; also (generally, derogatory) a woman.
synonyms: word: abandons
word: alley cat
word: almah
word: bangtail
word: Bankside lady
word: bargirl
word: bat
word: beotch
word: blouze
word: blowen
word: blowsabella
word: brass nail
word: brasser
word: brass
word: broad
word: business girl
word: calico queen
word: callet
word: cat
word: chippy
word: chromo
word: coaster
word: cockatrice
word: cocotte
word: comfort girl
word: comfort woman
word: commoner
word: Covent Garden nun
word: creature of the night
word: croshabell
word: daughter of joy
word: dollymop
word: doxy
word: drab
word: Dutch widow
word: escort
word: fille de joie
word: flap
word: floozie
word: fornicatrix
word: frail sister
word: Fulham virgin
word: gamester
word: gay lady
word: geebag
word: gillian
word: gill
word: girl rented overnight
word: good-time girl
word: GRO
word: hackney
word: harlot
word: Haymarket ware
word: hireling
word: 'ho
word: hoer
word: hoe
word: hook
word: hooker
word: hustler
word: Japayuki-san
word: jay
word: karayuki-san
word: KTV girl
word: laced mutton
word: lady of leisure
word: lady of light virtue
word: lady of pleasure
word: lady of the evening
word: lady of the night
word: lightskirt
word: loose woman
word: lot lizard
word: meat puppet
word: meretrix
word: mermaid
word: minx
word: mob
word: moll
word: mort wap-apace
word: mot
word: mud kicker
word: mud-kicker
word: mudkicker
word: musk cat
word: mutton
word: nun
word: nymph of darkness
word: nymph of the pavé
word: nymph of the pavement
word: painted lady
word: Paphian
word: party girl
word: pavement princess
word: perdita
word: pimpette
word: pretty horsebreaker
word: priestess of Venus
word: pro skirt
word: prossie
word: prossy
word: pross
word: prostie
word: prostitute
word: prostitutor
word: prosty
word: prozzie
word: prozzy
word: pro
word: public woman
word: pucelle
word: puella publica
word: pug
word: punk
word: pussygirl
word: puta
word: put
word: quail
word: quean
word: quene
word: quiff
word: ribibe
word: scrubber
word: sex labourer
word: sex worker
word: skainsmate
word: skivvy
word: slag
word: slapper
word: slit
word: slut
word: sodomitess
word: soiled dove
word: stem siren
word: stew
word: street taco
word: strumpet
word: succubus
word: Suzi Wong
word: Suzie Wong
word: Suzy Wong
word: tart
word: tawaif
word: thotty
word: thot
word: tib
word: tom
word: treddle
word: trick turner
word: trollop
word: trug
word: trull
word: tweak
word: vice girl
word: wanton
word: wapping dell
word: wapping moll
word: wapping mort
word: wench
word: whore
word: woman of easy virtue
word: woman of ill fame
word: woman of ill repute
word: woman of the night
word: woman of the street
word: woman of the town
word: working girl
word: babe
word: baggage
word: bim
word: bint
word: bird
word: bitch
word: blone
word: broad
word: chick
word: covess
word: dame
word: donna
word: feme
word: femme
word: femoid
word: frau
word: frow
word: gal
word: gentlelady
word: ginch
word: hen
word: ho
word: huwoman
word: lady
word: maness
word: mort
word: mulier
word: placket
word: pussy
word: queen
word: she
word: sheila
word: skirt
word: squaw
word: thot
word: tía
word: twist
word: vaginoid
word: wan
word: wife
word: woman
word: wommon
word: womon
word: womxn
word: womyn
word: wimmin
examples: text: I haue had foure huſbands my ſelfe. The firſt I called, Svveete Duck, the ſecond, Deare Heart; the third, Prettie Pugge: But the fourth, moſt ſvveete, deare, prettie, all in all: he vvas the verie cockeall of a huſband.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, signatures F3, verso – F3, recto:
text: She ſings. / VVell met, pug, the pearle of beauty: vmh, vmh. / Hovv novv ſir knave, you forget your dutie, vmh, vmh.
ref: 1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature [C4], recto:
text: Marmouſelle: f. A little puppie, or pug to play vvith.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Marmouselle”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature [Eee vi], verso, column 1:
glosses: Senses relating to people.
A term of endearment for a person, or sometimes an animal or a toy such as a doll.
examples: text: Dares […] [W]ilt thou neuer trauell? / Epi[ton]. Yes in a VVeſterne barge, vvhen vvith a good vvinde and luſtie pugges, one may goe ten miles in tvvo daies.
ref: c. 1588 (date written; published 1591), [John Lyly], Endimion, the Man in the Moone. […], London: […] I[ohn] Charlewood, for the widdowe Broome, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, signature G, verso:
text: [E]uen the Weſterne Pugs receiuing mony here, haue tyed it in a bag at the end of their barge, and ſo trailed it through the Thames, leaſt pleague ſores ſticking vpon ſhillings, […]
ref: 1603, [Thomas Dekker], 1603. The Wonderfull Yeare. […], London: […] by [J. Browne, Nicholas Ling, and John Smethwick for?] Thomas Creede, […], →OCLC, signature F3, verso:
text: Puſh^([sic – meaning pish]); your VVeſterne pug [misprinted as png].
ref: c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, [Act IV], signature I3, recto:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to people.
A bargeman.
synonyms: bargee
examples: text: [Ulysses] ty'd his deafen'd Sailors (vvhile he paſs'd / The dreadful Lady's Lodgings) to the Maſt, / And rather venture drovvning, than to vvrong / The Sea-pugs chaſte Ears vvith a bavvdy Song: […]
ref: a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 77, lines 143–146:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to people.
A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.
Hyponyms: sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia innotata
word: angle-barred pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia innotata f. fraxinata
word: ash pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Pasiphila debiliata
word: bilberry pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia expallidata
word: bleached pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia succenturiata
word: bordered pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia abbreviata
word: brindled pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia denotata
word: campanula pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia ultimaria
word: Channel Islands pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia abietaria
word: cloaked pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia vulgata
word: common pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia assimilata
word: currant pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia phoeniceata
word: cypress pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
word: double-striped pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia tantillaria
word: dwarf pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Pasiphila muscosata
word: emerald pug moth
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia massiliata
word: Epping pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pulchellata
word: foxglove pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia intricata
word: Freyer's pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia virgaureata
word: golden-rod pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia sinuosaria
word: goosefoot pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia graefi
word: Graef's pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia ravocostaliata
word: great variegated pug
sense: geometrid moth
word: green pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Pasiphila rectangulata
word: satin pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia subfuscata
word: grey pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pernotata
word: Guenée's pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia haworthiata
word: Haworth's pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pusillata
word: juniper pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia lariciata
word: larch pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia annulata
word: larch pug moth
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia plumbeolata
word: lead-coloured pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia inturbata
word: maple pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia irriguata
word: marbled pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pygmaeata
word: marsh pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia exiguata
word: mottled pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia nanata
word: narrow-winged pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia venosata
word: netted pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia dodoneata
word: oak-tree pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia indigata
word: ochreous pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pauxillaria
word: parsimonious pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia egenaria
word: pauper pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia peckorum
word: Peck's pug moth
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia pimpinellata
word: pimpinel pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia insigniata
word: pinion-spotted pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia simpliciata
word: plain pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia satyrata
word: satyr pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia extensaria
word: scarce pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia subumbrata
word: shaded pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia tenuiata
word: slender pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Pasiphila chloerata
word: sloe pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia innotata f. tamarisciata
word: tamarisk pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia icterata
word: tawny speckled pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia distinctaria
word: thyme pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia linariata
word: toadflax pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia trisignaria
word: triple-spotted pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia valerianata
word: valerian pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Chloroclystis v-ata
word: v-pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Chloroclystis pallidiplaga
word: white-shouldered pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia tripunctaria
word: white-spotted pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia absinthiata
word: wormwood pug
sense: geometrid moth
taxonomic: Eupithecia millefoliata
word: yarrow pug
Derived terms: word: Chinese pug
word: chug
word: jug
word: pudge
word: pugeranian
word: pugged
word: puggish
word: puggishness
word: puggle
word: puggy
word: puglet
word: puglike
word: pug nose
word: pug-nosed
word: pugship
word: pug-ugly