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Pug vs Pup - What's the difference?

pug | pup |

As nouns the difference between pug and pup

is that pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck) while pup is hump, hunch.

As a verb pug

is to mix and stir when wet.

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 * * * * *

    pup

    English

    (wikipedia pup)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, shark and some other animals.
    • The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup .
  • A young, inexperienced person.
    • The new teacher is a mere pup .
  • Any cute dog, regardless of age.
    • My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
  • A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To give birth to pups.

    • See also

    * puppy * pup tent English palindromes ----