dug
1 Americanverb
noun
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dugs
plural
noun
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the nipple, teat, udder, or breast of a female mammal
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a human breast, esp when old and withered
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of dug
1520–30; origin obscure; perhaps < a Germanic base akin to Danish dægge, Norwegian degge, Swedish dägga to suckle
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On Saturday, preparations were underway for the victims' funerals the following day and church officials had dug a mass grave, which will become a memorial.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
A decade ago, Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. happily dug ceremonial shovels into the dirt at Hollywood Park, celebrating the impending construction of the world’s most expensive stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
They would later discover that Russians had dug sideways and below at these barricades to create large living hubs where soldiers would have to spend months at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The 23-year-old McRae, on the other hand, will have her past decisions dug up by what remains of the music press after each new chart smash.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Swiftly, her teeth gritted, she dug in the soil with her hands and lifted the ratatoska into it, covering it with earth, so that the lavellans wouldn’t eat it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
In the state of Arizona, prison boss Carson McWilliams was also on the search for lethal dugs.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which has played a vital role in procuring experimental dugs and vaccines.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2020
Around the last stall came a shepherd bitch, lean and long, with heavy, hanging dugs.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Finn, with his two foster-brothers, was at the dugs of the foster-mother, a soft-eyed little sheep-dog, then occupying a very comfortable corner of the big bed in the coach-house.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton
I saw that the old and abandoned valise contained a tabby cat at whose generous dugs six wee kittens were tugging industriously.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Eugene Field
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