puggy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʌɡi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌɡi
Etymology 1
Adjective
puggy (comparative puggier, superlative puggiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog.
- a puggy nose
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC; republished as chapter 2, in Burmese Days (ebook no. 0200051h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, November 2015:
- Mr Macgregor was a large, heavy man, rather past forty, with a kindly, puggy face, […]
- (Australia, New Zealand) sticky, claylike
Synonyms
- (sticky): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
puggy (plural puggies)
- Alternative form of pagi (“Indian tracker”).
Scots
Noun
puggy
- alternative form of puggie (“slot machine”)