puggy
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of puggy
probably from pug ²
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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
It was just as puggy to-day, but I was not sick.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
"The puggy," he declared, "is a great ba'."
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
"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
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 Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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