dug

Etymology 1

verb

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

Etymology 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”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare doug

noun

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
    First Pig. I suck, but no milk will come from the dug. 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

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