Pug vs Fug - What's the difference?
pug | fug |
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.
A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 4
*2004 , , "Boxing Day", National Review , November 8, 2004
* 2005 , , Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
As nouns the difference between pug and fug
is that pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck) while fug is only used in mit fug und recht.As a verb pug
is to mix and stir when wet.pug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Cotgrave)
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* pug nose * pug-nosedVerb
(pugg)- to pug clay for bricks or pottery
Anagrams
* ---- ==Volapük==Declension
(vo-decl-noun)fug
English
Noun
- On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
- The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
- The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.