n. An elf; fairy; goblin; sprite: same as puck, 1.n. A monkey.n. A fox.n. A dwarf variety of dog; a pug-dog.n. A term of familiarity or endearment, like duck, etc.n. A three-year-old salmon.n. One of certain small geometrid moths: an English collectors' name. The netted pug is Eupithecia venosata; the foxglovepug is E. pulchellata.n. A short cloak worn by ladies about the middle of the eighteenth century.n. A pug-nose; the form or turn of a pug-nose: as, a decided pug.To thrust; strike. [Prov. Eng.]In building: To tamp with clay, or stop with puddle; clay.To line (spaces between floor-joists) or cover (partition-walls) with coarse mortar, felt, sawdust, or any other material to impede the passage of sound; deaden; deafen.In pottery-and brick-manuf., to grind, as clay, with water in order to render it plastic.n. Clay ground and worked or kneaded with water, and sometimes with other substances, into consistency for molding, as into bricks, etc.n. A pug-mill.n. Chaff; refuse of grain.n. The print of a foot; a footmark. See puggi.