Pud vs Pug - What's the difference?
pud | pug |
(colloquial) Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
(slang) Penis.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 387:
Term of endearment (probably related to puck).
A bargeman.
A harlot; a prostitute.
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.
(obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
Any geometrid moth of the genus .
To mix and stir when wet.
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.
As nouns the difference between pud and pug
is that pud is pudding (either sweet or savoury) while pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck).As a verb pug is
to mix and stir when wet.pud
English
Etymology 1
Clipped form of pudding.Noun
(en noun)- Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.
Derived terms
* pudknockerEtymology 2
Origin unknown.Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----pug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Cotgrave)
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* pug nose * pug-nosedVerb
(pugg)- to pug clay for bricks or pottery
