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pug

/pʌɡ/ noun C2
  1. Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay. (countable, uncountable)

Plural pugs

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“Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to a pug.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 25 · C1

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