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[Perhaps an orig. misprint for prigging, The white sheete bleaching on the hedge, With hey the sweet birds, O how they sing; Doth set my pugging tooth an edge. Shak., W. T., iv. 3. 7 (1623). Poor pug was caught; to town convey'd; There sold. How envy'd was his doom, Made captive in a lady's room! Gay , Fables, i. 14. 3. A fox. Some well-known haunts of pug . 4. A dwarf variety of dog; a pug-dog. All at once a score of pugs And poodles yell'd within. Tennyson , Edwin Morris. 5. A term of familiarity or endearment, like duck, etc. Good pugge , give me some capon. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. The first I called sweet duck; the second, deare heart; the third, prettie pugge . Marston, Antonio and Mellida, II., iii. 4. 6. A three-year-old salmon. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-7. One of certain small geometrid moths: an English collectors' name. The netted pug is Eupithecia venosata; the foxglove pug is E. pulchellata.—- 8†. A short cloak worn by ladies about the middle of the eighteenth century.