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Definitions and meaning of dug

dug

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Chiduruma with g as a placeholder.

Symbol

dug

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Chiduruma.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chiduruma terms

English

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)

Derived terms

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 also doug.

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

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

   Synonym: udder
2. (now vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or nipple.

   Synonyms: pap, breast; teat, tit, nipple

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of dog.

Anagrams

• DGU, 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 тонгомс (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. (ambitransitive, informal) to have sex

   Synonyms: szexel, kefél

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

• dug in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• dug in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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

• doag, dogue, dowg (“obsolete”), doug
• 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

Further reading

• “dug”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûɡ/

Adjective

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

2. long

   Dugi Otok ― Long Island (an island in the Adriatic Sea)

Declension

Related terms

• dugo
• dugačak

Further reading

• “dug”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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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