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Puck vs Pug - What's the difference?

puck | pug |

As nouns the difference between puck and pug

is that puck is (ice hockey) a hard hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game or puck can be a mischievous spirit while pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck).

As a verb pug is

to mix and stir when wet.

puck

English

Etymology 1

Attested since 1886. From or influenced by (etyl) . Compare poke (1861).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
  • * 1886 , Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
    • In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck ’, is used.
  • (chiefly, Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
  • * 2004 , Art Directors Annual , v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
    • He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck'. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal ' puck .
  • (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
    • Derived terms
    * hockey puck * puck bunny * puck carrier * puck chaser * puck chasing * puck crown * puck-dribbling * puck-handler * puck-handling * puck palace * puck-pusher * puck sense * puck-shy * puckster * rag the puck
    See also
    * (Hockey puck)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mischievous spirit.
    • Derived terms
    * puckish ----

    pug

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Term of endearment (probably related to puck).
  • A bargeman.
  • A harlot; a prostitute.
    • (Cotgrave)
  • A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
  • An upper servant in a great house.
  • The footprint of an animal. (Also pugmark ) (From the Hindi for 'foot', related to Sanskrit 'padh' and Greek 'ped')
  • Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil )
  • A pug mill.
  • (obsolete, slang) A pugilist or boxer.
  • (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
    • (Holland)
  • Any geometrid moth of the genus .

    • Derived terms

    * pug nose * pug-nosed

    Verb

    (pugg)
  • To mix and stir when wet.
    • to pug clay for bricks or pottery
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • slaughter, slaughtering
  • butchery, butchering

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    Related terms

    * benohipugan * benojipugan * benopugan * * hipugan * jevodihipugan * jevodijipugan * jevodipugan * jipugan * mipug * mipugam * * pugadel * pugamaskar * pugamastan * pugahimastan * pugajimastan * pugam * pugamon * pugan * * puganeif * pug ritulik * pugasakrifot * pugastum * pugastumem * pugatrip * * * * pugotavetot * * * * *