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Tugging vs Pugging - What's the difference?

tugging | pugging |

As verbs the difference between tugging and pugging

is that tugging is present participle of tug while pugging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tugging and pugging

is that tugging is the action of something that tugs; a pull while pugging is mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound.

tugging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of something that tugs; a pull.
  • * 1951 , Raymond F. Jones, Renaissance
    • Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.

    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)