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Pugged vs Purged - What's the difference?

pugged | purged |

As verbs the difference between pugged and purged

is that pugged is (pug) while purged is (purge).

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 * * * * *

    purged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (purge)

    • purge

    English

    (wikipedia purge)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of .
  • (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
  • A cleansing of pipes.
  • A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
    • Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
  • That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
    • (Arbuthnot)

    Related terms

    * purgatory

    Verb

    (purg)
  • to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
  • (religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
  • To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
    • Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
  • * Addison
    • We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
  • (medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
  • (medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
  • (legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
  • To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
  • To become pure, as by clarification.
  • To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.