Brewer's: Pug

a variant of puck, is used to a child, monkey, dog, etc., as a pet term.

You mischievous little pug.
A playful reproof to a favourite. Pug. A mischievous little goblin in Ben Jonson's drama of The Devil is an Ass.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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