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puggaree

puggaree is the alternative form of puggry.

Meaning of puggry

Noun

puggry (plural puggries)

  1. A strip of cloth wound around the upper portion of a hat or helmet, particularly a pith helmet, and falling down behind to act as a shade for the back of the neck.

Forms of puggaree

pluralpuggarees

Questions about puggaree

What is puggaree the alternative form of?
Puggaree is the alternative form of puggry.

Words near puggaree in the dictionary

  1. Puget Island
  2. Puget Sound
  3. Puget Sound pine
  4. Puget Sounder
  5. Puget Sounders
  6. puggaree
  7. puggarees
  8. pugged
  9. pugger
  10. puggered
  11. puggerie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puggaree (page history and authors); puggry (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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