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PUG

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

PUG is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

PUGS-s 1 PUGGING-ging 5 PUGGED-ged 3

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PUGGINGS 11
noun
  1. In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
  2. In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
  3. historicalIn full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
  4. In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
  5. UKarchaicregionalAlso used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
  6. UKarchaicregionalspecificallySynonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).
  7. UKarchaicobsoleteregionalspecificallyAn ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
  8. UKarchaicobsoleteregionalspecificallyA fox.
  9. UKrareregionalA person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
  10. USregionalA bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
  11. obsoleteA small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.
  12. UKhistoricalChiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
  13. obsoleteA mistress, or a female prostitute; also (generally, derogatory) a woman.
  14. endearingobsoleteA term of endearment for a person, or sometimes an animal or a toy such as a doll.
  15. obsoleteA bargeman.
  16. obsoleteA cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.
  17. InternetAlternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”).
  18. The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
  19. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
  20. countableuncountableClay, 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.
  21. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).
  22. EnglandScotlandUKWalesWesternarchaiccountableregionaluncountableThe residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.
  23. EnglandScotlandUKWalesWesterncountableobsoleteregionaluncountableOften in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.
verb
  1. BritishIndiaobsoleteraretransitiveTo track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
  2. raretransitiveTo hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
  3. transitiveTo 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.
  4. transitiveTo 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
  5. AustraliaarchaictransitiveOf cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.
  6. EnglandalsoarchaicfigurativelyregionaltransitiveTo pack or tamp (something) into a small space.
  7. EnglandalsoarchaicfigurativelyintransitiveregionalTo pack or tamp into a small space.
  8. EnglandScotlandWalesWesterntransitiveTo pull or tug (something).
  9. EnglandScotlandWalesWesternobsoletetransitiveTo spoil (something) by touching too much.
  10. EnglandScotlandWalesWesternintransitiveFollowed by at: to pull or tug.