Dug in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Dug

You can make 3 words from 'dug' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'dug'
• 2 letters words from 'dug'

3 letters words from 'dug'

DUG 5

2 letters words from 'dug'

GU 3

UG 3

Definitions and meaning of dug

dug

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

dug

1. simple past tense 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.
   • c 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 5, Scene II

     He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     First Pig.
     I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

Translations

Anagrams

• UDG, gud

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō (“dew”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”). Cognate with German Tau (“dew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɡ/, [d̥uɡ̊]

Noun

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

1. dew

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dúkr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːɡ/, [d̥uːˀ]

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” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈduɡ]
• Rhymes: -uɡ

Verb

dug

1. (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in

   Synonym: illeszt

2. (transitive) to hide, conceal

   Synonym: rejt

3. (transitive, informal) to have sex

   Synonyms: szexel, kefél

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

1. imperative of duga and duge

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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 present dugs, present participle duggin, past duggit, past participle duggit)

1. To stand up to; to outlast.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûːɡ/

Noun

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

1. debt

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ. Cognated with Czech dlouhý.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûɡ/

Adjective

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

1. long

Declension

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

Verb

dug

1. imperative of duga.

Anagrams

• Gud, gud

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Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dug

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

Mutation

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Yola

Noun

dug

1. dog

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)

Source: wiktionary.org

• the udder of a female mammal.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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