dug
/dʌɡ/
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Australia/dɐɡ/
dug is the simple past and past participle of dig.
dug is the pronunciation spelling of dog.
Noun
dug (plural dugs)
- A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts, mostly used to refer to the nipples of non-ruminants and non-primates.
- Horatio: This Lapvving runs avvay vvith the ſshell on his head.
Hamlet: He did complie with his Dugge before hee ſuck't it: […]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... - First Pig.
I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
- Synonyms:
- udder
- Horatio: This Lapvving runs avvay vvith the ſshell on his head.
- A woman's breast or nipple.
- Ah! that Deceit ſhould ſteale ſuch gentle ſhape,
And vvith a vertuous Vizor hide deepe vice.
He is my ſonne, I, and therein my ſhame,
Yet from my dugges, he drew not this deceitc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Ah! that Deceit ſhould ſteale ſuch gentle ſhape,
Meaning of dig
Verb
dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug or (archaic) digged)
- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- to dig potatoes
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- Peter dug at his books all the harder.1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- to dig up evidence
- To thrust; to poke.
- He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
Meaning of dog
Noun
dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- The dog barked all night long.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
- This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561
- Synonyms:
- canid
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.1908, Dogdom, volume 9, page 337, column 1
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
- Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- She’s a real dog.
- A man, guy, chap.
- You lucky dog!
Synonyms of dug
Forms of dug
| plural | dugs |
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Origin of dug
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 also doug.
Words formed from dug
Phrases with dug
Words that rhyme with dug
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Questions about dug
- What does dug mean?
- Dug means a mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts, mostly used to refer to the nipples of non-ruminants and non-primates.
- What is dug the simple past and past participle of?
- Dug is the simple past and past participle of dig.
- What part of speech is dug?
- Dug is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dug?
- Dug is pronounced /dʌɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dug?
- The plural of dug is dugs.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dug (page history and authors); dig (page history and authors); dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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