wug

Noun

Meaning

wug (plural chiefly wugs; see usage notes)

(linguistics) An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.

wug (plural wugs)

(anthropology) In folk taxonomy, a creature with worm or insect features; colloquially, a bug or creepy-crawly.

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