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
Other Word Forms
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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
Example Sentences
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Carey dug deeper and saw that the hit to his score had happened after a debt collector, Tate and Kirlin, reported a supposed long-overdue payment.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
A classmate dug her out from the wreckage.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
He blamed AI firms: “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The lights flickered and Regan dug her nails into my arm.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
True Power was never born of brutish Strength, Nor sweet Truth suckled at the shaggy dugs Of that old she-wolf.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
A copious bowl of milk, new from the dugs of old Brindle, stands beside him, patiently waiting to be honored by his unscrupulous but not unfastidious taste.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
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