# dug

Pronunciation: US say "DUG" /dʌɡ/; UK

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of dig. — simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of dig. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The archaeologists dug carefully around the buried foundations._
   - _By nightfall the volunteers had dug a trench along the entire ridge._

## Noun

2. One of the mammary glands on a domestic mammal that has more than two breasts.
   - Simple: A milk-producing part on a female animal that has more than two breasts.
   - _The sow lay on her side while the whole litter nursed at her dugs._
   - _The vet carefully examined each dug for signs of infection._
3. A vulgar term for a woman's breast or nipple.
   - Simple: A rude word for a woman's breast or nipple.
   - _The sailors traded coarse jokes about the tavern girls' dugs._
   - _He earned a sharp slap for his leering remark about her dug._
4. Pronunciation spelling of dog. — Pronunciation spelling of dog.
   - Simple: Pronunciation spelling of dog. Used to show how some people say the word.
   - _"Yon dug's been chasing the sheep again," the shepherd complained._
   - _He spent half his pension feeding strays and his own daft dug._

## Origin

This word comes from the earlier "dugge" ("pap, teat"), which appears to be connected to Danish "dægge" ("to suckle"), Swedish "dägga" ("to suck"), and Old English "dēon" ("to suckle").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dug (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).