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Pugging vs Purging - What's the difference?

pugging | purging |

As verbs the difference between pugging and purging

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

As nouns the difference between pugging and purging

is that pugging is mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound while purging is the act by which something is purged.

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)

    purging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is purged.
  • (medicine) vomiting
  • * 1849 , The Journal of Health and Disease (page 98)
    • He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings