Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To stir (the fire).
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From a blend of pug and beagle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“How about a puggle, which is part pug, part beagle?”
“Baby echidna is called a "puggle" (puggle-licious!).”
“Who needs Omega fats and deep breathing and flowing linen when you can wear the leggings & ripped t-shirt you slept in while gnawing on fancy beef jerky like a starlet's puggle?”
The Huffington Post: Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V.
“Regarding the Journal's article on seat belts for Fido, with what looks like a puggle belted in Get in the Car, Fasten Your Seat Belt, That's a Good Boy!”
The Wall Street Journal: Forget It! Fido Just Isn't Going to Stay Buckled In a Seat Belt
“P.S. I haven't had the joy of birthing my own child yet, but I am the mother of a 23 lbs curly-tailed puggle who really enjoyed this sequence as well!”
The Huffington Post: Kathryn Budig: Mother's Day Yoga Poses: Baby's First Yoga (PHOTOS)
“Then ask if she's up for some vegetarian Thai, let it slip that you're thinking of getting a puggle, and that should get you sex through April.”
The Huffington Post: John Bobey: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret's Ex
“But I took her hand as a little gentleman ought, with a silent bow, as though she hadn't fed me puggle and we'd never played two-backed beastie in our lives.”
“I'd always known that although Susie was a perfect fool for any chap with a big knocker, she was also a woman of character-she managed her slave-whores with a rod of iron, kindly enough but standing no nonsense, and the cool way she'd taken Omohundro's demise, and seen Spring outward bound with a bellyful of puggle just because he was in the way, showed that she could be even harder than I'd have believed.”
“The more time we spent around her, the more she seemed like a yapping, eager-to-please puggle.”
“He ends up meeting Sidney Jason Segel, a womanizer who hates relationships, loves Rush, and refuses to clean up after his puggle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘puggle’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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i heart words
autarkic, cline, aver, limn, gossamer, ochre, fulminate, twee, augur, mollify, maw, ecumenical and 113 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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jerin's Words
ululating, puddle, whorl, huzzah, maharaja, mostaccioli, elizabethan, cat, felicitous, dystopian, larynx, pop and 35 more...
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Baby Animals
chick, crocklets, whelp, foal, duckling, eaglet, hatchling, fingerling, fry, polliwog, gosling, cheeper and 21 more...
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zoology
animals of interest
sloth, kakapo, kaka, hoatzin, numbat, wombat, hyena, wallaby, emu, morepork, jackdaw, magpie and 73 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
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anestes's Words
Tweets
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bilby A search engine designed for ex-boxers who keep toy dogs. Feb 19, 2009
frindley Young of the echidna or spiny anteater. Oct 9, 2008
bilby Scots - to tire. "I'm fair puggled, let's goo." Dec 5, 2007
sionnach 1. The puggle — the result of a one-night stand between a beagle and a pug — has families cooing and cuddling all over New York. Even tough-guy "Soprano" James Gandolfini recently bought one of the black-nosed rascals.
—Raakhee Mirchandani, "Puggle power pooch," New York Post, November 3, 2005.
2. to clear out or stir up by poking. Oct 24, 2007
anestes My recollection is that the OED defines it as "to poke or ream" Apr 29, 2007
emera The term for a baby monotreme is "puggle." Apr 17, 2007