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puggy
noun
a kitty in a card game; a one-armed bandit; an ATM cash dispenser UK: SCOTLAND
From a Scots word for “monkey”.- — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 55, 1985
- Puzzles, from activating lifts to access new areas, to punching a puggy machine to line up health-boosting hamburgers or V-Medals, help keep the action fresh and let you catch your breath. — Dundee Evening Telegraph, 5 November 2003
▶ full as a puggy
very drunk; having eaten too much UK: SCOTLAND- — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 55, 1985
- Burns is stotting out of a gathering of the Crochallan Fencibles, fu’ as a puggy, pickin’ his way through the vennels to Potter Row to tickle up his Nancy. — W.Gordon Smith, Mr Jock, 1987
▶ take a puggy
to become very angry UK: SCOTLAND- The boss’ll take a puggy if he sees this. — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 55, 1985
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