Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stir (the fire).
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- verb UK, regional To coax (a rabbit) from a burrow by poking a stick down the hole and moving it about.
- verb To poke around a hole with a stick.
- noun A baby
monotreme (echidna orplatypus ). - noun US A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a pug and beagle.
Etymologies
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Examples
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How about a puggle, which is part pug, part beagle?
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Baby echidna is called a "puggle" (puggle-licious!).
WAVY TV 2008
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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?
Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V. Suzanne Morrison 2011
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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!
Forget It! Fido Just Isn't Going to Stay Buckled In a Seat Belt 2011
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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?
Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V. Suzanne Morrison 2011
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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.
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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.
Watershed 2010
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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.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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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.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret's Ex John Bobey 2010
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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!
Kathryn Budig: Mother's Day Yoga Poses: Baby's First Yoga (PHOTOS) 2010
emera commented on the word puggle
The term for a baby monotreme is "puggle."
April 17, 2007
anestes commented on the word puggle
My recollection is that the OED defines it as "to poke or ream"
April 29, 2007
sionnach commented on the word puggle
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.
October 24, 2007
bilby commented on the word puggle
Scots - to tire. "I'm fair puggled, let's goo."
December 5, 2007
frindley commented on the word puggle
Young of the echidna or spiny anteater.
October 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word puggle
A search engine designed for ex-boxers who keep toy dogs.
February 20, 2009