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dug

The origin and history of dug.

Etymology

This comes from earlier dugge (“pap, teat”; compare also English dialectal ducky, dukky, “the female breast”), apparently linked to Danish dægge (“to suckle”), Swedish dägga (“to suck”) and Old English dēon (“to suckle”). More at doe. Compare also doug.

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