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2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.

Pug (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pugged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]

1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

2. 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, 2.

Pug, n. 1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

2. A pug mill.

Pug mill, a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

Pug, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See Puck.] 1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] Addison.

3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] Lyly.

5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.

6. A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

7. (Zoˆl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

8. (Zoˆl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Pug"-faced` (?), a. Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.

Pug"ger (?), v. t. To pucker. [Obs.]

Pug"gered (?), a. Puckered. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Pug"ging (?), n. [See Pug, v. t.] 1. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

2. (Arch.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.

Pug"ging, a. Thieving. [Obs.] Shak.

Pugh (?), interj. Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.

Pu"gil (?), n. [L. pugillus, pugillum, a handful, akin to pugnus the fist.] As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pu"gil*ism (?), n. [L. pugil a pugilist, boxer, akin to pugnus the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Fist.] The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

Pu"gil*ist, n. [L. pugil.] One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Pu`gil*is"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to pugillism.

Pug*na"cious (?), a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness, n.

Pug*nac"i*ty (?), n. [L. pugnacitas: cf. F. pugnacitÈ.] Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. " A national pugnacity of character." Motley.