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Pug vs Walrus - What's the difference?

pug | walrus |

As nouns the difference between pug and walrus

is that pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck) while walrus is a large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, species: Odobenus rosmarus.

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)

    walrus

    English

    (wikipedia walrus)

    Noun

  • (countable) A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, .
  • Synonyms

    * morse (obsolete) * sea horse (rare)

    Usage notes

    The hypercorrect plurals walri and walrii, based on a faulty assumption that the word derives from a Latin noun of the second declension, are generally considered to be nonstandard.

    See also

    * seal * sea lion, sealion English nouns with irregular plurals ----