dug

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

plural dugs

1. in pluralA mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts, mostly used to refer to the nipples of non-ruminants and non-primates.

   First Pig. I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

   1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

   1 more example

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

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 280, column 1

   Synonyms: udder

2. in pluralvulgarA woman's breast or nipple.

   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

   c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 183, column 2

   Synonyms: pap, breast, teat, tit, nipple

plural dugs

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of dog.