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Dug

//dʌɡ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. in-plural

    "Horatio: This Lapvving runs avvay vvith the ſshell on his head. Hamlet: He did complie with his Dugge before hee ſuck't it: […]"

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of dog. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
  3. 3
    an udder or breast or teat wordnet
  4. 4
    A woman's breast or nipple. in-plural, vulgar

    "Ah! that Deceit ſhould ſteale ſuch gentle ſhape, And vvith a vertuous Vizor hide deepe vice. He is my ſonne, I, and therein my ſhame, Yet from my dugges, he drew not this deceit"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged) form-of, participle, past

Etymology

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare also doug.

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