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PRONUNCIATION OF PUGGISH

puggish  [ˈpʌɡɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUGGISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Puggish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUGGISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of puggish in the English dictionary

The definition of puggish in the dictionary is relating to or characteristic of a small compact breed of dog with a smooth coat, lightly curled tail, and a short wrinkled nose.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUGGISH


biggish
ˈbɪɡɪʃ
boggish
ˈbɒɡɪʃ
broguish
ˈbrəʊɡɪʃ
doggish
ˈdɒɡɪʃ
dreggish
ˈdreɡɪʃ
Gish
ɡɪʃ
haggish
ˈhæɡɪʃ
hoggish
ˈhɒɡɪʃ
jiggish
ˈdʒɪɡɪʃ
loggish
ˈlɒɡɪʃ
pedagoguish
ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡɪʃ
piggish
ˈpɪɡɪʃ
priggish
ˈprɪɡɪʃ
roguish
ˈrəʊɡɪʃ
sluggish
ˈslʌɡɪʃ
thuggish
ˈθʌɡɪʃ
voguish
ˈvəʊɡɪʃ
waggish
ˈwæɡɪʃ
Whiggish
ˈwɪɡɪʃ
woggish
ˈwɒɡɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUGGISH

pugaree
Puget
Puget Sound
puggaree
pugged
puggie
puggier
puggiest
pugginess
pugging
puggle
puggree
puggy
pugh
pugil
pugilism
pugilist
pugilistic
pugilistical
pugilistically

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUGGISH

British
curate´s-eggish
Danish
English
fetish
finish
fish
Irish
largish
longish
on the parish
orangish
polish
publish
slangish
Spanish
strongish
stylish
Swedish
youngish

Synonyms and antonyms of puggish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «puggish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUGGISH

Find out the translation of puggish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of puggish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «puggish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

puggish
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puggish
570 millions of speakers

English

puggish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

puggish
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

puggish
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

puggish
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

puggish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

puggish
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

puggish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puggish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

puggish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

puggish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

puggish
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puggish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

puggish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

puggish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खोड्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

puggish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

puggish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

puggish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

puggish
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

puggish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

puggish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

puggish
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

puggish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

puggish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of puggish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUGGISH»

The term «puggish» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.561 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUGGISH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about puggish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUGGISH»

Discover the use of puggish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to puggish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
Tess photographed Ray standing beneath the house's knotty-pine ceiling beams. His face, with its puggish nose and a slight dimple in his chin, looks youthful, thin, and healthy. His arched right eyebrow conveys a skeptical, perhaps jocular, ...
Carol Sklenicka, 2009
2
Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis
If the Slinkums call their boy Caesar, it follows as a natural consequence that the puggish disposition of the family nose will, in his case, gracefully curve into the aquiline, and that the family propensity for the Fabian method of getting out of a ...
Joseph Clay Neal, 1838
3
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ...
Their faces are dark and severe, puggish, concealing a basic gendenc-is. Occasionally they bully each other for position. i sit among them, in a ('JmO cap, litt'dililiing on young Charles Darwin and his throwing arm and ecological naiveté  ...
David Quammen, 2012
4
Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott
... on the Port of Monteith, and pointed out the boatman as a remarkable person, the representative of the hereditary gardeners of the Earls of Monteith, while these Earls existed. His son, a puggish boy, follows up the theme, — ' Feyther, ...
John Gibson Lockhart, Susan M. Francis, 1838
5
Andrew Carnegie
His head is abnormally large and heart-shaped, with small, narrow eyes, a puggish nose, tightly closed mouth, and a high broad forehead, topped by neatly brushed blond hair, parted on the left, with a slight pompadour effect. Although he  ...
David Nasaw, 2007
6
Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
The boys showed great sportman- ship on this occasion : and so did their poor curs, who, with their whole bodies inserted into the different branches of the burrow, and nothing visible but their tails, (the one, the long puggish brush, of which I ...
Mary Russell Mitford, 1870
7
A Heart Revealed: A Novel
There was nothing particularly beautiful about Alli Moser with her small, puggish nose set in a pale face, but no one noticed that when she smiled. Like shafts of sunlight bursting through an overcast sky, Alli had a smile that lit up the room as ...
Julie Lessman, 2011
8
How to Measure the Sexuality of Men & Women by Their Facial ...
Oprah's nose appears to be a little bit small for her face (less than one-third the length of her face, which is the ideal) and slightly puggish. The refined shape of her nose and the slightly flaring nostrils are regarded by face- reading theory as ...
Boye Lafayette De Mente, 2005
9
Tales of Neveryon
The tall fellow had gotten up, taken Jahor to another, even fouler barracks, found Noyeed for him, and all in all seemed a congenial sort. With his scarred and puggish face and dirt-stiffened hair he was no one's handsome. But he was animally ...
Samuel R. Delany, 2012
10
The Memoirs of John F. Kennedy: A Novel
Jiggs had a at puggish face that could, at kinder moments, be called roguishly masculine. Just now it held a scowling, pained expression. He was unsure of his position in making demands of the attorney general, the brother to the president,  ...
Donald James Lawn, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUGGISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term puggish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Excerpt: The House That BJ Built by Anuja Chauhan
... off a terrace six stories high (ripping his shirt in four aesthetically-pleasing places as he fell) and saved the life of the puggish, gimlet-eyed Mrs Bhudevi Thakur, ... «Livemint, May 15»
2
Chamber Music
... gentleness, and docility, with extremely short puggish muzzle; the Chinese breed very small with smooth hair; the Japanese rather larger, with an exuberance ... «Washington Free Beacon, Apr 15»
3
The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On
A stout man with a puggish face slammed the door and waddled toward the gated carport. "Who's judging me?" he demanded when asked if he'd been running ... «VICE, Feb 15»
4
We need more kindness on TV, but Derek isn't it
Pictures of Gervais with a lank bowl cut, gormless puggish underbite and train-spotter cardie did little to allay any fears either, but I must confess to having found ... «WalesOnline, Dec 14»
5
Alarming Rise In Dog Facelifts: Is Celebrity Culture To Blame?
Pugs are a pedigree breed, but when pugs are bred to look even more puggish, certain problems arise. The excess skin on a pug's face can, if left untreated, ... «The Inquisitr, Aug 14»
6
8 Awesome Floats Your Grown-Up July 4th Pool Party Just Has to …
And while you're thinking of putting things up your nose, why not put yourself in the Puggish schnoz of this dual-passenger float? The Swimline Smiley Face Fun ... «Gizmodo, Jul 14»
7
Today's Drive: Nissan won drivers over with weird designs
Still, it's absolutely adorable — a puggish, puckish car that's as cheap to run as its more-conservative Micra cousin. The third car Sakai would design for Nissan ... «Vancouver Courier, Jun 14»
8
A Night in the Forest Capturing Bats
Tschapka joined Brändel and Hiller to say goodbye to the creature, and they gently passed it around, each holding its puggish face close to his own for one last ... «Smithsonian, Jan 14»
9
Who Is The Bumblesnot? A Pug In Trouble Whose Magic Saved Him …
He definitely "snots," snorts and makes all sorts of Puggish sounds, but more so than other Pugs I've met. So, now he is The Bumblesnot for all intents and ... «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
10
The Newsroom, season two, episode one, review
Economics expert Sloan (Olivia Munn) was dealing with the awkwardness of working with puggish producer Don (Thomas Sadowski) after telling him she ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»

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