释义 |
puggish, a.|ˈpʌgɪʃ| [f. pug n.2 + -ish1.] Resembling or characteristic of a pug, in various senses (as monkey, pug-dog), or a pug-nose.
1742Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 197 The apes of imitation..were wont to hop and skip about, and play a thousand puggish Tricks. 1807–8in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. XII. 10, I touch not what concerns their praise, Or wreathes their puggish pates with bays. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 308 (Young Gipsy) Nothing visible but their tails, (the one, the long puggish brush of which I have already made mention, the other a terrier-like stump). 1828Scott Diary June in Lockhart, His son, a puggish boy, follows up the theme. a1849Poe Wks. (1864) I. 136 Doomed to perpetual contemplation of their noses—a view puggish and snubby. |