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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

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Dig
.

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.

Definition 2024


dug

dug

English

Noun

dug (plural dugs)

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

Translations

Verb

dug

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dig

Anagrams


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)
Derived terms
Declension

References


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduɡ]

Verb

dug

  1. to insert; push in
  2. to hide, conceal
  3. (informal) to have sex

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • átdug
  • bedug
  • eldug
  • feldug
  • földug
  • kidug
  • ledug
  • megdug
  • odadug
  • összedug
  • rádug
  • visszadug

Synonyms


Lojban

Rafsi

dug

  1. rafsi of dugri.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga and duge

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.

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːg

Verb

dug

  1. imperative of duga.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

dug

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

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dug ddug nug unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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)