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Webster 1913 Edition


Dug

Dug

(dŭg)
,
Noun.
[Akin to Sw.
dägga
to suckle (a child), Dan.
dægge
, and prob. to Goth.
daddjan
. √66.]
A teat, pap, or nipple; – formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
With mother’s
dug
between its lips.
Shakespeare

Dug

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p.
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Dig
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Webster 1828 Edition


Dug

DUG

,
Noun.
[L.] The pap or nipple of a cow or other beast. It is applied to a human female in contempt, but seems to have been used formerly of the human breast without reproach.
From tender dug of common nurse.

DUG

, pret. and pp. of dig; as, they dug a ditch; a ditch was dug.