dug

Abbreviation of English Chiduruma with g as a placeholder.

dug

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Chiduruma.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chiduruma terms

• enPR: dŭg, IPA^(key): /dʌɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ
• Homophone: Doug

dug

1. simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

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.

dug (plural dugs)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.

   Synonym: udder

   • 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 280, column 1:

     Horatio: This Lapvving runs avvay vvith the ſshell on his head.
     Hamlet: He did complie with his Dugge before hee ſuck't it: […]

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     First Pig.
     I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

2. (now vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or nipple.

   Synonyms: pap, breast; teat, tit, nipple

   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 183, column 2:

     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 deceit

dug (plural dugs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of dog.

• DGU, UDG, gud

From Old Norse dǫgg (“dew”), from Proto-Germanic *dawwō, *dawwaz (“dew”), cognate with Swedish dagg, English dew, German Tau (“dew”), Dutch dauw.

• IPA^(key): /duɡ/, [ˈd̥uɡ̊]

dug c (singular definite duggen, not used in plural form)

1. dew

• “dug,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German dūk, dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, cognate with German Tuch, Dutch doek (Old Norse dúkr is also borrowed from Low German).

• IPA^(key): /duːˀ/, [ˈd̥uˀ]

dug c (singular definite dugen, plural indefinite duge)

1. tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table)
2. a piece of canvas or cloth
3. a piece of bunting (material from which flags are made)

• “dug,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Proto-Uralic *tuŋke-. Cognate with Finnish tunkea, Erzya тонгомс (tongoms).

• IPA^(key): [ˈduɡ]
• Rhymes: -uɡ

dug

1. (transitive) to stick, tuck, insert, push in (into something: -ba/-be)

   Synonym: illeszt

2. (transitive) to hide, conceal (into some place: lative suffixes)

   Synonym: (literary) rejt

3. (ambitransitive, informal) to have sex

   Synonyms: szexel, kefél

(With verbal prefixes):

• dug in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• dug in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

dug

1. (rare, Early Middle English) alternative form of duk (“duke”)

dug

1. imperative of duga

• doag, dogue, dowg (“obsolete”), doug
• duggie (“diminutive”)

From Old English docga (“hound, powerful breed of dog”). Cognate with English dog.

• IPA^(key): /dʌɡ/

dug (plural dugs)

1. dog

dug (third-person singular simple present dugs, present participle duggin, simple past duggit, past participle duggit)

1. To stand up to; to outlast.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъlgъ.

• IPA^(key): /dûːɡ/

dȗg m inan (Cyrillic spelling ду̑г)

1. debt

• “dug”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьlgъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dílˀgas. Cognate with Czech dlouhý.

• IPA^(key): /dûɡ/

dȕg (Cyrillic spelling ду̏г, definite dȕgī, comparative dȕžī)

2. long

   Dugi Otok ― Long Island (an island in the Adriatic Sea)

• dugo
• dugačak

• “dug”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

dug

1. romanization of 𒂁 (dug)

• Rhymes: -ʉːɡ

dug

1. imperative of duga

• Gud, gud

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dɨːɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /diːɡ/

Borrowed from Middle English duk, itself a borrowing from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

dug m (plural dugiaid, feminine duges)

1. duke

• dugiaeth (“dukedom; duchy”)

Inflected form of dwyn (“to steal”).

dug

1. (obsolete, literary) third-person singular past of dwyn

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dug”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga.

• IPA^(key): /dʊɡ/

dug (plural duggès)

1. dog
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 71:

     Dinna thar a dug.

     Don't vex the dog.

• dugged

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36