dug

• enPR: dŭg, IPA^(key): /dʌɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ
• Homophone: Doug

dug

1. simple past tense and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare doug

dug (plural dugs)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     First Pig.
     I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

• UDG, gud

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō, *dawwaz (“dew”), cognate with Swedish dagg, English dew, German Tau (“dew”), Dutch dauw.

• IPA^(key): /duɡ/, [ˈd̥uɡ̊]

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

1. dew

• “dug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German dūk, dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, cognate with German Tuch, Dutch doek (Old Norse dúkr is also borrowed from Low German).

• IPA^(key): /duːˀ/, [ˈd̥uˀ]

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
2. a piece of canvas or cloth
3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)

• “dug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Proto-Uralic *tuŋke-. Cognate with Finnish tunkea, Erzya [script needed] (tongoms).

• IPA^(key): [ˈduɡ]
• Rhymes: -uɡ

dug

1. (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in (into something: -ba/-be)

   Synonym: illeszt

2. (transitive) to hide, conceal (into some place: lative suffixes)

   Synonym: (literary) rejt

3. (transitive, intransitive, informal) to have sex

   Synonyms: szexel, kefél

(With verbal prefixes):

• dug in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dug in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

dug

1. (rare, Early Middle English) Alternative form of duk (“duke”)

dug

1. imperative of duga

• duggie (diminutive)

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

• IPA^(key): /dʌɡ/

dug (plural dugs)

1. dog.

dug (third-person singular simple present dugs, present participle duggin, simple past duggit, past participle duggit)

1. To stand up to; to outlast.

From Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

• IPA^(key): /dûːɡ/

dȗg m (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

1. debt

From Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dílˀgas. Cognate with Czech dlouhý.

• IPA^(key): /dûɡ/

dȕg (definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī, Cyrillic spelling ду̏г)

1. long

dug

1. Romanization of 𒂁 (dug)

• Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

dug

1. imperative of duga.

• Gud, gud

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dɨːɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /diːɡ/

Borrowed from Middle English duk, itself a borrowing from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

dug m (plural dugiaid, feminine duges)

1. duke

• dugiaeth (“dukedom; duchy”)

Inflected form of dwyn (“to steal”).

dug

1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dug”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga.

dug (plural duggès or duges)

1. dog

• dugged

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 36