1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. K3 Arise, arise, my Iuggie my Puggie..my honnie, my connie, My loue my doue my deere.

1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iii. sig. G3^v Begone, begone, my iuggy, my puggy, begone my loue, my deere.

1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches ii. i. sig. C4 Call each spright. Come away, and take thy duggy. Enter foure Spirits...Come my Mamilion like a Puggy,..And come my puckling take thy teat.

1698 T. Dilke Pretenders ii. 18 Oh! my dear Country puggy.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 44 My Juggy, my Puggy, My Honey, my Bunny.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Puggy, a soothing Word to a little Child, or a Paramour, as My little Puggy.

1794 C. Smith Banished Man III. i. 19 Jamima, love! will you let this air alone, till to-morrow, and do as my poor Puggy desires?

1662 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 154 Johne Taite..his mother..was bitten throughe the arme with a puggy.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 392/2 ‘See that wee body sittin' on the man's shouther’... ‘That's a puggy, man’.

1878 J. L. Robertson Poems 64 But here at last the puggy fell, Wi' tranquil sob or frantic yell, Beside the lanely ocean.

1897 C. M. Campbell Deilie Jock i. 29 I've heard talk o' some missing link, atween men and puggies.

1943 W. S. Forsyth Guff o' Waur 21 And jumpit like a puggy on the quay.

1989 Sunday Mail 23 Apr. 23/2 But my Aunt Hannah, a Fifer of over 80, knew that puggy was old Scots for monkey.

1827 Sporting Mag. 21 134 Puggy, thinking it time to shift, got into a drain.

1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland xii Puggy..A squirrel.

1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 124 Puggy,..common name for a ferret.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 62 Puggy's nest, a squirrel's drey.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 233/1 Puggy,..a squirrel.

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 22 'Tis Gowd that makes some great Men witty, And puggy Lasses fair and pretty.

1763 Butiad 65 He forgot his own puggy Nose.

1857 J. Stewart Sketches 64 A skrankie puggie face an' scaud ee.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona x. 110 My affection for my king, God bless the puggy face of him, is under more control.

1904 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 6/5 Its puggy little nose has quite a smashed-in appearance, and when the animal looked in a mirror it also must have noticed that, for it smiled an almost cynical smile.

1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days ii. 32 A large, heavy man..with a kindly, puggy face.

1997 Africa News (Nexis) 17 June Her eyes are large dark pools with a puggy nose set in a high-cheekboned face.

a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Puggy, moist, arising from gentle perspiration. A puggy hand. North.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 143 How puggy you've made your work!

1896 A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life III. xv. 329 I remembered being sick as a child from the puggy smell of its hideous interior. It was just as puggy to day, but I was not sick.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 90 Puggy, moist, of perspiring hands.

a1979 J. Grenfell Turn back Clock (1983) iii. 233 Oh, she's got puggy hands. But you don't have to hold her hand.

1907 N.Z. Geol. Surv. Bull. New Ser. No. 3. 98 The conglomerates and graywackes of the Haupiri Series..contain ramifying stringers of quartz and puggy material.

1932 I. L. Idriess Prospecting for Gold 41 Puggy clay is unusual. ‘Puggy’ ground often breaks up under the pick to form into sticky clay balls exceptionally awkward to disintegrate.

1977 J. Doughty Gold in Blood 82 I bottomed at six-and-a-half feet, the last nine inches being composed of a red puggy wash tightly packed with pebbles of quartz, ironstone, and ochre.

1996 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 July 12 The sharp tines slide into puggy soil which breaks quickly and easily with a simple twist.