material such as clay, mortar, sawdust, sand, etc, inserted between wooden flooring and ceiling to reduce the transmission of sound
Also called: pug
pugging in American English
(ˈpʌɡɪŋ)
noun
1.
the act of a person who pugs
2.
coarse mortar or the like for deadening sound
Word origin
[1815–25; pug2 + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aesthetic, coupon, heuristic, pullout, treadmill-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”