puggy
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of puggy
probably from pug ²
Example Sentences
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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
How well I remembered being sick as a child from the puggy smell of its hideous interior.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
He had a puggy nose and a heavy, thinly bearded face incased about the eyes in broad steel spectacles.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick
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
"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
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