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Is pug a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pug is a Scrabble US word. The word pug is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

P3U1G2

Is pug a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pug is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

P3U1G2

Is pug a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word pug is a Words With Friends word. The word pug is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4U2G3

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Valid words made from Pug

You can make 5 words from 'pug' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


3 letters words from 'pug'

GUP 6PUG 6

2 letters words from 'pug'

GU 3UG 3
UP 4 

All 3 letters words made out of pug

pug upg pgu gpu ugp gup

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Definitions and meaning of pug

pug

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŭg, IPA(key): /pʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1

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Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. [from the 18th c]
    Synonyms: Chinese pug, Dutch bulldog, Dutch mastiff, mini mastiff, mops, carlin, pugdog
  2. A bargeman. [from the 16th c]
  3. (obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
    • rotten chaffe or pugs, and such like plain mullock
  4. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Derived terms
  • pug nose
  • pug-nosed
  • pug-ugly
Translations

Etymology 2

Corruption of puck, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”). Compare Icelandic púki (“demon”) and Welsh pwca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
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  2. An upper servant in a great house. [from the 19th c]
  3. A harlot; a prostitute. [circa 1600]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
Synonyms
  • (mythological creature): puck, goblin, fairy

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of pugilist, from Latin pugil.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (informal) One who fights with fists; a boxer.
    • 1988, Ken Blady, The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame (page 226)
      He never trained for his characters either: with his slurred speech and disfigured mug he usually portrayed a punch-drunk ex-pug or comic tough guy, roles in which he was a natural.

Etymology 4

Compare German pucken (“to thump, beat”).

Noun

pug (countable and uncountable, plural pugs)

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

Verb

pug (third-person singular simple present pugs, present participle pugging, simple past and past participle pugged)

  1. (transitive) To mix and stir when wet.
    to pug clay for bricks or pottery
  2. (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.

Etymology 5

From Hindi पग (pag, “step, foot”), related to Sanskrit पद्य (padya, “foot”) and Greek πόδι (pódi, “foot”).

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. The pawprint or footprint of an animal
Synonyms
  • pugmark

Etymology 6

Probably related to puck.

Noun

pug (plural pugs)

  1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. [from the 16th c]

Anagrams

  • GPU, gup

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [puɡ]

Noun

pug (nominative plural pugs)

  1. slaughter, slaughtering
  2. butchery, butchering

Declension

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Source: wiktionary.org
  • to fill in with clay or mortar.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)