pugging
- noun
- Australian
:
daño por pisoteo
- Heavy rainfall and cattle movement led to severe pugging in the pasture.
Examples
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The football field suffered from pugging after the tournament was held in the rain.
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Farmers try to prevent pugging by rotating grazing areas during wet seasons.
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Look at the pugging here!
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The pugging is severe.
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Heavy rainfall and cattle movement led to severe pugging in the pasture.
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The football field suffered from pugging after the tournament was held in the rain.
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Farmers try to prevent pugging by rotating grazing areas during wet seasons.
Surface Forms
Morphology
pugging = pug (opaque) = pug + ing
This specialized agricultural/regional meaning comes from an uncommon verb sense of 'pug' (to churn or trample soil) that most learners will not know, so the meaning is not predictable from the base.
Etymology
Pugging comes from the same old word pug meaning 'mud' and the idea of soft ground being pressed and churned. So pugging is the damage or muddy depressions left when animals or heavy traffic squash wet soil.
