Pur vs Pug - What's the difference?
pur | pug |
(low murmuring sound as of a cat)
* 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
* John G. C. Brainard
* 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
Term of endearment (probably related to puck).
A bargeman.
A harlot; a prostitute.
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.
(obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
Any geometrid moth of the genus .
To mix and stir when wet.
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.
As an adjective pur
is pure.As a noun pug is
term of endearment (probably related to puck).As a verb pug is
to mix and stir when wet.pur
English
Noun
(en noun)- The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
Verb
- And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
- It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .
pug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Cotgrave)
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* pug nose * pug-nosedVerb
(pugg)- to pug clay for bricks or pottery