dug

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DUG, noun [Latin] The pap or nipple of a cow or other beast. It is applied to a human female in contempt, but seems to have been used formerly of the human breast without reproach. From tender dug of common nurse. DUG, preterit tense and participle passive of dig; as, they dug a ditch; a ditch was dug
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