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puggle

puggle

1 8.9
An animal that is a baby echidna, a baby platypus, or a small dog from a pug and beagle
  • noun
  • /ˈpʌɡəl/
  • UK
: puggle
  • My friend just adopted a playful little puggle that loves to cuddle.

It it'd be like asking, you know, why is my puggle not still a wolf?

Examples

  • During our walk, I met a cute puggle who was very curious about everything.

  • I'm gonna take my puggle for a little jaunt on the Venice Boardwalk.

    I Love You, Man (2009)

  • Unless your uh -- your puggle got hit by a car or something, it can wait.

    The Twin (2024)

  • I looked up the puggle breed on Google Images; they are so cute!

    Blog text (18)

  • My dog is a breed called a puggle.

    Blog text (18)

  • It it'd be like asking, you know, why is my puggle not still a wolf?

    IMPAULSIVE

  • Hi I'm Lex and I'm about to do a show and I'm from Tennessee and this is my puggle Ruby.

  • IT'S A PUGGLE, RIGHT?

    Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014)

  • At the dog park, I saw a friendly puggle playing with a golden retriever.

Synonyms

pooch
vspuggle
  • Informal
17 7.7

A small friendly dog kept as a pet

is narrower, naming a particular crossbreed or a young echidna or platypus

Surface Forms

puggle singular
puggles plural

Morphology

puggle = pug + beagle (semi-transparent) = pug + beagle

The dog-breed sense is a transparent blend of 'pug' + 'beagle', but the separate zoological sense for a young echidna/platypus is an independent coinage and not derivable from those components.

Etymology

Puggle has two easy stories: in Australia it became a cute name for a baby echidna or platypus, and for dogs the word was later formed by joining the names pug and beagle. So, a puggle can mean either a tiny baby echidna or platypus, or a dog that is a 'mix' of those two breeds.