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dug¹

(dŭg)

An udder, breast, or teat of a female animal.

[Origin unknown.]

dug²

(dŭg)

Past tense and past participle of dig.

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dug

(dʌɡ)

the past tense and past participle of dig

dug

(dʌɡ)

1. (Anatomy) the nipple, teat, udder, or breast of a female mammal

2. a human breast, esp when old and withered

[C16: of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish dægge to coddle, Gothic daddjan to give suck]

dug

(dʌɡ)

(Animals) a Scot word for dog

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dug¹

(dʌg)

v.

a pt. and pp. of dig.

dug²

(dʌg)

n.

the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.

[1520–30; perhaps < a Germanic base akin to Dan dægge, Swedish dägga to suckle]

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Noun

dug - an udder or breast or teat

female mammal - animals that nourish their young with milk

mammary gland, mamma - milk-secreting organ of female mammals

Translations

capezzolo mammella pas. e p.p. di to dig

dug

² [dʌg] N (Zool) → teta f, ubre f

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dug

n (of animal) → Zitze f

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dig

(dig) – present participle ˈdigging: past tense, past participle dug (dag) – verb

1. to turn up (earth) with a spade etc. to dig the garden.

2. to make (a hole) in this way. The child dug a tunnel in the sand.

3. to poke. He dug his brother in the ribs with his elbow.

noun

a poke. a dig in the ribs; I knew that his remarks about women drivers were a dig at me (= a joke directed at me).

ˈdigger noun

a machine for digging.

dig out

1. to get out by digging. We had to dig the car out of the mud.

2. to find by searching. I'll see if I can dig out that photo.

dig up

We dug up that old tree; They dug up a skeleton; They're digging up the road yet again.

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Why, look at one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way; how long was HE at it, you reckon?"

But there's one thing, anyway -- Jim's too old to be dug out with a case-knife.

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He went up to the place where he had dug the hole and buried the gold pieces.

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A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it.

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She searched about until she found a rather sharp piece of wood and knelt down and dug and weeded out the weeds and grass until she made nice little clear places around them.

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By-and-by he dug so close to her that the fire-beams were reflected as distinctly from the steel prongs of his fork as from her own.

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He turned his head, dug with his hand through the snow about him and opened his eyes.

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The diggers dug all through the short night by flaring pipes of gas, and on a level with the early sun, and deeper and deeper below it as it rose into its zenith, and aslant of it as it declined, and on a level with it again as it departed.

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Then they rode downhill and uphill, across a ryefield trodden and beaten down as if by hail, following a track freshly made by the artillery over the furrows of the plowed land, and reached some fleches* which were still being dug.

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And it would dig and lay, and continue to dig and lay, while a black dug out its eggs within two or three feet of it.

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There he had dug quite a deep hole for dog darnel; and had set a mole trap.

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Was it not by chance he caused the earth to be dug up?

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