Pŭg, n.

[Corrupted from puck. See Puck, and cf. Bug, and Ir. beag, small, little.]

1. The same as Puck. See Puck. [Obs.] B. Jon.
2. A monkey. [Colloq.]
3. A kind of small dog; a pug-dog.

It is first in Shakespeare that we find Puck confounded with the House-spirit, and having those traits of character which are now regarded as his very essence, and have caused his name Pug to be given to the agile, mischievous monkey, and to a kind of little dog. Keightley.

4. An intimate; a crony. [Obs.] Lyly.
5. Chaff, or other refuse of grain. Holland.