Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/August 26

1. Senses relating to someone or something small.
   1. In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
   3. In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
   4. (clothing, historical) In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
   5. (rail transport) In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
   6. (UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
      1. (specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)
      2. (specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
      3. (specifically, obsolete) A fox.
   7. (UK, regional, rare) A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
   8. (US, regional) A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
   9. (obsolete) A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.

Today is National Dog Day in the USA, which was established by the American animal welfare advocate Colleen Paige.