Pug

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1. Verb

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

2. Verb

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. See Pugging, 2.

3. Noun

Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

4. Noun

A pug mill.

5. Noun

An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.

6. Noun

A name for a monkey.

7. Noun

A name for a fox.

8. Noun

An intimate; a crony; a dear one.

9. Noun

Chaff; the refuse of grain.

10. Noun

A prostitute.

11. Noun

One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

12. Noun

Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

13. Noun

small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
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