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発音

• enPR: pŭg, IPA^(key): /pʌɡ/
• 韻: -ʌɡ

語源 1

(This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

pug (複数形 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
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 または 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock

4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

派生語

• foxglove pug (Eupithecia pulchellata)
• pug nose
• pug-nosed
• pug-ugly
• wormwood pug (Eupithecia absinthiata)

語源 2

Corruption of puck, from 古期英語 pūca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).

名詞

pug (複数形 pugs)

1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
   • 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:

     The great diuell. Pvg. The lesse diuell.

2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]
   • September 24 1600, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, letter:

     the Lo. Admyrall and the Lord Threasurer with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.

同意語

• (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy

語源 3

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

名詞

pug (複数形 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.

語源 4

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

名詞

pug (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

派生語

• pug and pine

動詞

pug (三人称単数 現在形 pugs, 現在分詞 pugging, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

語源 5

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

名詞

pug (複数形 pugs)

1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal.
   • 1889, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Pigsticking, page 56:

     And on closer investigation the abashed coolies discover that across the great square pug of the tiger runs the delicate tracing of the little field rat's toes […]

同意語

• pugmark

語源 6

Probably related to puck.

名詞

pug (複数形 pugs)

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

語源 7

Acronym of pickup group.

名詞

pug (複数形 pugs)

1. (online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal, such as completing a dungeon または a raid)

アナグラム

• GPU, gup