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dug
2[ duhg ]
noun
- the mamma or the nipple of a female mammal.
dug
1/ dʌɡ /
noun
- a Scot word for dog
dug
2/ dʌɡ /
noun
- the nipple, teat, udder, or breast of a female mammal
- a human breast, esp when old and withered
dug
3/ dʌɡ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of dig
Word History and Origins
Origin of dug1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dug1
Example Sentences
To explore labdanum’s utility as an adhesive, Ochando and his team dug a replica hearth in an open-air site in Portelas, Portugal.
Two feet tall, its design of a crucified Christ positioned above the skull of Adam was dug out from a copper ground, filled with powdered glass mixed with metallic oxides and fired to achieve an extraordinary array of colors, both delicate and bright.
When Johnson rose from relative obscurity to the Speaker position, one of the few pieces of information that journalists dug up was that he had been in a documentary about "purity balls" in 2015.
Professor Myles Allen, of the University of Oxford's Department of Physics, who led the study, summarises: "We are already counting on forests and oceans to mop up our past emissions, most of which came from burning stuff we dug out of the ground. We can't expect them to compensate for future emissions as well. By mid-century, any carbon that still comes out of the ground will have to go back down, to permanent storage. That's Geological Net Zero."
Before zipping up his bag, he dug out a pair of the glasses for Kupp, who promptly put them on.
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