Thesaurus: pug
To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- v. t. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
- v. t. 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. See Pugging, 2.
- n. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
- n. A pug mill.
- n. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
- n. A name for a monkey.
- n. A name for a fox.
- n. An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
- n. Chaff; the refuse of grain.
- n. A prostitute.
- n. One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
- n. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.