PuGverb

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  gamesgamingTo participate in structured content of an online game as part of a pickup group.

pugnoun詞源 1/pʌɡ/

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  Senses relating to someone or something small.

  • She […] tells Fibs, makes Miſchief, buys China, cheats at Cards, keeps a Pug-dog, and hates the Parſons; […]
  • Meanwhile she arranged her ornaments in the room which she had won too easily. They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea-voyage—china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, […]
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  Senses relating to someone or something small.

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  historicalbusinessclothingfashionSenses relating to someone or something small.

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportSenses relating to someone or something small.

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  archaicregionalSenses relating to someone or something small.

  • Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.
  • Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.
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  archaicregionalSenses relating to someone or something small.

  • It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]
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  archaicobsoleteregionalSenses relating to someone or something small.

  • […] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.
  • Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]
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  archaicobsoleteregionalSenses relating to someone or something small.

  • [T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]
  • That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

pugnoun詞源 3/pʌɡ/

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  The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.

  • [T]here were the broad, deep puggs of a tiger, up and down the nullah, in the dry sand, near the water's edge, of all ages, from the week, perhaps, up to the unmistakeable fresh puggs of last night.
  • The goat has a square pug with blunt points to his toes, which are always held apart. The sheep's pug is more like that of the boar, being longer than the goat's. […] The boar's pug is distinguished from that of the sow by being much wider in the heel, and having the toes more open, and the rudimentary toes marking the ground more widely apart.

pugverb詞源 3/pʌɡ/

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  obsoleterareTo track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.

  • Wishing to track a good boar that had got away through some thick cover, we called up the headman of the beat (a man lent to us by a friend) and asked him if he could pug. He was a havildar (sergeant) of police. He replied, 'That is my regular business, sahib; of course I can pug. My work is pugging criminals.'

pugverb詞源 5/pʌɡ/

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  rareTo hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).

  • Agosh! I long to try a bout / With zom o' Burdett's rabble rout; / I'd quickly pug their guts: / I'd gee mun zich a lammin [i.e., violent] lick, / I'd make mun of elections zick; / I'd gee mun all the butts.
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  businessconstructionmanufacturingTo fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun etymology 5, noun sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.

  • Forbid it Venus! From the venal Fair / Snatch every charm, to Hay convert her Locks; / Pug up her nose, and pug-like make her stare; / And pit her pimpled visage with small-pox.
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  businessconstructionmanufacturingTo mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.

  • to pug clay ready for shaping
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  archaicOf cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.

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  archaicregionalTo pack or tamp (something) into a small space.

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  archaicregionalTo pack or tamp into a small space.

pugnoun詞源 5/pʌɡ/

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  businessconstructionmanufacturingClay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.

  • A brickfield certainly is not the place for girls and young women to work in; […] the work they have too, at least those who are pug-bearers, often causes indecency; they have to stoop down to the ground to pick the pug up from the bottom of the mill; at all events, they ought to have their clothes tied around them, indeed, the respectable young women usually have. I do not think there is any ill-treatment of the children as there used to be; they often get a bit of pug thrown at them, but they are not hit about with the hand or the "slice."
  • The walls of the house were built of "pug," which means simply well-pounded mud, and has the disadvantage of refusing to adhere firmly to the frames of doors and casements, so that the banging of either, in windy weather, is apt to bring large pieces of the material crumbling down, and the house never looks tidy.

pugverb詞源 6/pʌɡ/

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  businessconstructionmanufacturingTo pull or tug (something).

  • George pugg'd clover in the forenoon.
  • Nae thing was prosperin’ there and thrivin’, / But tirlin’ roofs and rafter-rivin’, / And pullin’ down and puggin’; […]
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  obsoletebusinessconstructionmanufacturingTo spoil (something) by touching too much.

  • ["B]e sure not to wet it up too much; make it into twelve doughboys" (dumplings). / "I'm so heavy-handed," Jane remarked at this point, "I always spoil that sort of cookery." / "Tell about heavy-handed!" cried Betsy; "I'll answer for it, I'll soon put you in the way of being light-handed! You only want to learn to handle things without pugging and pawing them about too much."
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  businessconstructionmanufacturingFollowed by at: to pull or tug.

pugnoun詞源 7/pʌɡ/

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  archaicregionalagriculturebusinessconstructionThe residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.

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  obsoleteregionalagriculturebusinessconstructionOften in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.

  • Radiſh ſeed vvould vvillingly be ſovvne in a looſe or light ground, and natherleſſe moiſt enough: it cannot abide danke mucke, but contenteth it ſelfe vvith rotten chaffe or pugs, and ſuch like plaine mullock.
  • The pugg, i.e. the refuſe corne left at winnowinge.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• pickup group
• pugilist
• pug mill