1. (v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
2. (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging.
3. (n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
4. (n.) A pug mill.
5. (n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
6. (n.) A name for a monkey.
7. (n.) A name for a fox.
8. (n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
9. (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
10. (n.) A prostitute.
11. (n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
12. (n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.