1
- (亦作pug dog)a dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face哈巴狗。
2
- a small slender moth which rests with its wings stretched out to the sides尺蠖。
2.1
- Eupithecia and other genera, family Geometridae.波尺蛾属及其他属, 尺蛾科。
派生词
puggish
adjectivepuggy
adjective词源
mid 18th cent. (in sense 1): perhaps of Low German origin. Sense 2 dates from the early 19th cent.
mass noun
- loam or clay mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition without air pockets for making bricks or pottery(制砖或陶器用细细搅拌过的)泥料。
(pugged, pugging)with obj.
1
- usu. as adj. pugged prepare (clay) in this way, typically in a machine with rotating blades(尤指用带旋转叶片的机器)细细搅拌(黏土)。
2
- usu. as noun pugging pack (a space, typically the space under a floor) with pug, sawdust, or other material in order to deaden sound用泥料(或锯屑等)填塞(尤指地板之下隙处)以消音。
词源
early 19th cent.: of unknown origin.