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Pugging vs Hugging - What's the difference?

pugging | hugging |

As verbs the difference between pugging and hugging

is that pugging is present participle of lang=en while hugging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pugging and hugging

is that pugging is mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound while hugging is the act of giving a hug.

pugging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (architecture) mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound.

    • Synonyms

    * deafening (US)

    hugging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a hug.
  • * 1844 , Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches
    • There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off