dugとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

動詞

dug

1. simple past and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)

派生語

語源 2

From earlier dugge ("pap, teat"; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky (“the female breast”)), apparently connected to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”), 古期英語 dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare also doug.

名詞

dug (plural dugs)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.

   Synonym: udder

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 280, column 1:

     Horatio: This Lapvving runs avvay vvith the ſshell on his head.
     Hamlet: He did complie with his Dugge before hee ſuck't it: […]

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     First Pig.
     I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.

2. (now vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or nipple.

   Synonyms: pap, breast; teat, tit, nipple

   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 183, column 2:

     Ah! that Deceit ſhould ſteale ſuch gentle ſhape,
     And vvith a vertuous Vizor hide deepe vice.
     He is my ſonne, I, and therein my ſhame,
     Yet from my dugges, he drew not this deceit

語源 3

名詞

dug (plural dugs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of dog.

アナグラム

• DGU, UDG, gud