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puggy

British

/ ˈpʌɡɪ /

adjective

sticky, claylike

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Etymology

Origin of puggy

probably from _pug ²

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puggy

Feb. 5, 2007: I leave a bungalow on a studio lot to learn that my dog, who I refer to in my journal as “my puggy Teddy Bear,” died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2021

"Ye canna' tak' eighty strokes to the roun' wi' a puggy—the puggy will na' gae roun' in eighty strokes."

From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson

Mr. Fido said, turning up his lip till he showed a fine set of white teeth, and tilting his puggy nose.

From The Gray Goose's Story by Amy Prentice

"Her hair is fuzzy and her nose is puggy, but I didn't see much other likeness."

From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

"The puggy," he declared, "is a great ba'."

From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson

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