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  • Among these are persons who bear the term of Iena-dizze - wug, that is, wanderers about the country, braggadocios, or fops.

    The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

  • Dizclaymerz: Lettin da cat owt uff da bag wug jus a figger uff speech!

    All in favor of getting rid of the dog? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He felt the spell of the wicked book, but only as a horse might feel a ‘gee-wug!’ addressed to him.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The wug immediately scuttled forward and into her palm.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • How many wugs would a wise wug whip if a wise wug would whip wugs?

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • They forgot all about the wugs, wug origins, and wug intentions when something boomed softly in the distance and the room shook slightly but disarmingly.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • While no wug had ever injured a human being, humans were constantly squashing, smashing, dismembering, and otherwise demolishing the elegant little automatons.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Tse-Mallory grinned. '0le bug-wug, me friend, my reflexes have slowed down through the years, but dead yet they ain't!

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Tse-Mallory grinned. '0le bug-wug, me friend, my reflexes have slowed down through the years, but dead yet they ain't!

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Tse-Mallory grinned. '0le bug-wug, me friend, my reflexes have slowed down through the years, but dead yet they ain't!

    Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972

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  • This is a wug.

    Now there is another one.

    There are two of them.

    There are two ____.

    August 19, 2015

  • Because this is from Middle English, plural is waughen.

    August 21, 2015

  • Unless, of course, they are Jewish, in which case they would be wugim.

    August 22, 2015

  • Why is there no definition for this? Clearly it is a small bird like creature, usually blue and imaginative in origin, that exists purely to prove a point that we are able to adapt our language on the fly to make room for new words and their plural versions of themselves.

    October 19, 2017