Lexicographical Neighbors of Puggish
Literary usage of Puggish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Whenever any learned Lord of Session, who happens to be a member of Assembly,
delivers his opinion upon any subject, you are sure to see some raw puggish ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1848)
"... the representative of the hereditary gardeners of the Earls of Monteith, while
these Earls existed. His son, a puggish boy, follows up the theme—' ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"... his nose was puggish and purple ; his brows heavy and moveable, and it was
only when they wero wrinkled up in two or three folds, that the peering, ..."
4. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"6 She put off her gown of gray, And put on her puggish ' attire; She's up to fair
London gone, Her tine-love to require. 7 As she went along the road, ..."
5. Retrospections of an Active Life by John Bigelow (1913)
"Christ was personated by a man of thick, jet-black hair, very low forehead, and
a puggish nose. It was impossible for me to feel at ease in allowing myself ..."
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