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
Otherwise she was not unlike them, for she had curly brown hair and her nose was just the least bit "puggy," to use Roger's descriptive word.
From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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 Hare, Augustus J. C.
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 Herrick, Robert
He called it "puggy," which is Scottish for monkey, because it jumped about so.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
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