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Is dug a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dug is a Scrabble US word. The word dug is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is dug a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dug is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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3-letter words (1 found)

DUG,

2-letter words (2 found)

GU,UG,

You can make 3 words from dug according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of dug

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Definitions and meaning of dug

dug

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dŭg, IPA(key): /dʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ
  • Homophone: Doug

Etymology 1

Verb

dug

  1. simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

Etymology 2

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare doug

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
Translations

Anagrams

  • UDG, gud

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō, *dawwaz (“dew”), cognate with Swedish dagg, English dew, German Tau (“dew”), Dutch dauw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duɡ/, [ˈd̥uɡ̊]

Noun

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

  1. dew
Declension

References

  • “dug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dūk, dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, cognate with German Tuch, Dutch doek (Old Norse dúkr is also borrowed from Low German).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːˀ/, [ˈd̥uˀ]

Noun

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

  1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
  2. a piece of canvas or cloth
  3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)
Declension
Derived terms

References

  • “dug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tuŋke-. Cognate with Finnish tunkea, Erzya [script needed] (tongoms).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduɡ]
  • Rhymes: -uɡ

Verb

dug

  1. (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in (into something: -ba/-be)
    Synonym: illeszt
  2. (transitive) to hide, conceal (into some place: lative suffixes)
    Synonym: (literary) rejt
  3. (transitive, intransitive, informal) to have sex
    Synonyms: szexel, kefél

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • dug in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • dug in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Middle English

Noun

dug

  1. (rare, Early Middle English) Alternative form of duk (“duke”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga

Scots

Alternative forms

  • duggie (diminutive)

Etymology

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌɡ/

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

  1. dog

Verb

dug (third-person singular simple present dugs, present participle duggin, simple past duggit, past participle duggit)

  1. To stand up to; to outlast.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûːɡ/

Noun

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

  1. debt
Declension

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dílˀgas. Cognate with Czech dlouhý.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûɡ/

Adjective

dȕg (definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī, Cyrillic spelling ду̏г)

  2. long
Declension

Sumerian

Romanization

dug

  1. Romanization of 𒂁 (dug)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga

Anagrams

  • Gud, gud

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /dɨːɡ/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /diːɡ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English duk, itself a borrowing from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

Noun

dug m (plural dugiaid, feminine duges)

  1. duke
Derived terms
  • dugiaeth (“dukedom; duchy”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dwyn (“to steal”).

Verb

dug

  1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dug”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʊɡ/

Noun

dug (plural duggès)

  1. dog

Derived terms

  • dugged

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36

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