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dug

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1. dug - Noun

2. dug - Verb

Derived from dig

Meaning

of Dig

A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.

of Dig.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. Ray Charles

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod? Charlotte Brontë

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Conor Oberst

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Gabriel García Márquez

He made a pit and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. Portuguese Proverb

The grave is already dug and man still continues to hope. Yiddish Proverb

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