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Thug

A cutthroat or ruffian; a hoodlum.

Pug

The pug is a breed of dog with physically distinctive features of a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colors, most often light brown (fawn) or black, and a compact, square body with well-developed muscles.

Thug

Also Thug One of a group of professional criminals, devotees of Kali, who robbed and murdered travelers in northern India until the mid-1800s.

Pug

A dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face.

Thug

Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire.

Pug

A small, slender moth which rests with its wings stretched out to the sides.

Thug

(historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her.

Pug

Pugged clay.

Thug

(horticulture) An over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.

Pug

A boxer
A come-from-nowhere pug gets a shot at the heavyweight title

Thug

A punk; a hoodlum; a hooligan.

Pug

The footprint of an animal
I saw the pug marks of the tigress in the soft earth

Thug

A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.

Pug

Work (clay) into a soft, plastic condition suitable for making bricks or pottery, without air pockets
Bricks set in pugged clay

Thug

(AAVE) One who, usually as a result of social disadvantage, has turned to committing crimes (e.g. selling drugs, robbery, assault, etc.) to make a living; a gangsta.

Pug

Pack (a space) with pug, sawdust, or other material in order to deaden sound
Old-fashioned pugging with dry sand cannot be carried out

Thug

To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, or to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of someone who does.

Pug

Track (an animal) by its footprints.

Thug

One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

Pug

A dog of a small sturdy breed developed in China, having a short muzzle, wrinkled face, short smooth coat, and tightly curled tail.

Thug

An assassin; a ruffian; a rough.

Pug

A pug nose.

Thug

An aggressive and violent young criminal

Pug

Clay ground and kneaded with water into a plastic consistency for forming bricks or pottery.

Pug

A machine for grinding and mixing clay.

Pug

A footprint, track, or trail, especially of an animal; a pugmark.

Pug

A fighter, especially a boxer.

Pug

To work or knead (clay) with water.

Pug

To fill in with clay or mortar.

Pug

To make soundproof by covering or packing with clay, mortar, sawdust, or felt.

Pug

A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.

Pug

A bargeman.

Pug

(obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain

Pug

Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Pug

(obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.

Pug

An upper servant in a great house.

Pug

A harlot; a prostitute.

Pug

(informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.

Pug

Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)

Pug

A pug mill.

Pug

The pawprint or footprint of an animal.

Pug

(obsolete) A term of endearment.

Pug

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Pug

(transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
To pug clay for bricks or pottery

Pug

(transitive) 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.

Pug

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

Pug

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.

Pug

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

Pug

A pug mill.

Pug

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

Pug

A name for a monkey.

Pug

A name for a fox.

Pug

An intimate; a crony; a dear one.

Pug

Chaff; the refuse of grain.

Pug

A prostitute.

Pug

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

Pug

Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Pug

A footprint; a track; as of a boar.

Pug

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

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