pugs in English

noun

1

a dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face.

As secretary of the Pugalug Club, a group almost 500 strong throughout Ontario devoted to the health and well being of the pug dog breed, I can't help but feel a need to respond to your article, ‘Good, bad and Pugly’.

2

loam or clay mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition without air pockets for making bricks or pottery.

The soil at Ilam is a heavy clay which is slightly acid, and is known as Ilam pug .

3

a boxer.

The boxer has always included a diet of pugs and lower level fighters among his opponents.

4

the footprint of an animal.

I saw the pug marks of the tigress in the soft earth

verb

1

prepare (clay) by working into a soft condition, typically in a machine with rotating blades.

He had erected ‘a more substantial building of logs, pugged with clay’.

2

pack (a space, typically the space under a floor) with pug, sawdust, or other material in order to deaden sound.

The heavy (2.5kN / [m.sup.2]) roof of lead sheet pugging , membrane and oak ceiling boards, is supported by a composite truss of white American oak rafters, stainless-steel tie-rods and intermediate circular posts.

3

track (an animal) by its footprints.

Grazing, pugging (hoof prints left in the mud) and wallowing by buffaloes previously prevented these plants from dominating or even establishing.

noun

pug-dog

Use "pugs" in a sentence

1. Pugs, like other dog breeds with short noses, are prone to suffering from Brachycephalic Syndrome

2. The purists were far from happy, particularly when furtive crosses with pugs further tamed the breed.

3. Popular Brachycephalic breeds include English and French bulldogs, bull mastiffs, Boston terriers, boxers, pugs, shih tzus, Lhasa apsos and Pekingese, among others.

4. Brachycephalic syndrome: it’s a medical term for a variety of anatomical problems that sometimes obstruct the airways in pugs, bulldogs, and other pets (even cats!) with flat faces

5. Breeds such as French and English bulldogs and pugs are commonly affected by a condition called Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS), which leaves dogs gasping for breath

6. The most popular small dog Breeds include French Bulldog, Toy Poodles, Dachshunds, Corgis, Pugs, Pomeranians, Beagles, Yorkshire Terrier and Chihuahuas, but each is loved for their own unique reason

7. With their short muzzles and smaller upper jaws, flat-faced dogs-known as Brachycephalic breeds and including bulldogs, Boston terriers, pugs and French bulldogs-tend to have particular health issues

8. 29 Boxing’s two most gifted and stylish performers, in their prime the antithesis of the brute fighter, ended up indistinguishable from the broken-down old pugs they were sure they’d never become.

9. Breeds such as French and English bulldogs and pugs are commonly affected by a condition called Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS), which leaves dogs gasping for breath. DNA discovery gives hope; Dogs: Study shows link between gene and breathing woes in certain breeds