Definition of "pug" [pug]

• A small sturdy dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. (noun)
• A pug nose. (noun)
• Clay ground and kneaded with water into a plastic consistency for forming bricks or pottery. (noun)
• A machine for grinding and mixing clay. (noun)
• To work or knead (clay) with water. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A transplanted Hollander, carried thither originally from China, seems to thrive particularly well in this part of the world; the little pug dog, or Dutch mastiff, which our English ladies were once so fond of, that poor Garrick thought it worth his while to ridicule them for it in the famous dramatic satire called Lethe, has quitted London for Padua, I perceive; where he is restored happily to his former honours, and every carriage I meet here has a _pug_ in it."
• "Blue says: doggielore: The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races ...."
• "The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races ...."