a variant of puck, is used to a child, monkey, dog, etc., as a pet term.
You mischievous little pug. A playful reproof to a favourite.
Pug. A mischievous little goblin in Ben Jonson’s drama of The Devil is an Ass.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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