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Pugged vs Puggled - What's the difference?

pugged | puggled |

As verbs the difference between pugged and puggled

is that pugged is (pug) while puggled is (puggle).

pugged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pug)

    • 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 * * * * *

    puggled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puggle)

    • Anagrams

    *

    puggle

    English

    (wikipedia puggle)

    Etymology 1

    The noun echidna'' sense is derived from the verb: English settlers in Australia would ''puggle''''' to get rabbits out of holes and sometimes find an echidna.'''2000 November 11, '' Science Show: Echidnas] , [[w:Radio National, Radio National]
    (en)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (UK, regional) To coax (a rabbit) from a burrow by poking a stick down the hole and moving it about.
  • To poke around a hole with a stick.
  • * 1919 , James Francis Hobart, Millwrighting , McGraw-Hill, page 222,
    • He puggled around in the oil cavity with his little lead pencil until it slipped out of his fingers and went down into the oil cavity.
  • (Australia) To clean drains.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Australia) A baby monotreme (echidna or platypus).
  • * 2003 , Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management , unnumbered page,
    • Larger furred/spined puggles can be held in a wooden box with shredded paper.
  • * 1970 , Robert Burton, The International Wildlife Encyclopedia , Volume 1, page 2488,
    • The puggle , which grows rapidly, remains in the pouch until its spines are sufficiently developed that the mother must eject it.
  • * 2012 , Joseph Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology , page 498,
    • Hatching takes 10 days; the young echidna, called a puggle', then sucks milk from the pores of two milk patches and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days, at which time the spines develop. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the ' puggle , returning every 5 days to suckle it until it is weaned at 7 months.

    Etymology 2

    puggle.org

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a pug and beagle.
  • * 2007' May, Vicki Constantine Croke, ''The Problem With '''Puggles'' , '' , page 208,
    • Jake Gyllenhaal and Sylvester Stallone are among the puggle lovers, but so are a slew of regular people who want in on the tawny, fawny, puppy-faced action and will pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the pleasure.
  • * 2009 , Eve Adamson, Beagles , page 12,
    • Puggle proponents say these dogs have the very best qualities of both Beagles and Pugs: the Beagle?s cheerful friendliness, and the Pug?s lower activity level and laid-back attitude.
  • * 2009 , , Volume 34, Issues 1-6, page 67,
    • The menagerie for sale at this auction included two black puggles with hernias, a French bulldog with one ear, a 3-month old Yorkshire terrier with only one testicle and a badly bow-legged bulldog.

    References