jug
/d͡ʒʌɡ/ noun, verb
Forms jugs jugging jugged jugg
- noun A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- noun The amount that a jug can hold.
- noun (slang) Jail.
- noun (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- noun (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
- noun (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- noun (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
- noun (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
- verb (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- verb (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
- verb (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- verb (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- noun A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
- noun (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) Detention (after-school student punishment).
- verb (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) To issue a detention (to a student).
- verb (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
- verb (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see). “I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.”
Synonyms
handle jugful imprison incarcerate lag immure put behind bars jail gaol put away remand
Etymology
From Middle English jugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.
Blend of Jack Russell + pug.
Probably from Latin jugum (“yoke, tether”). A folk etymology claims that it is an acronym for "justice under God" or "judgment under God". https://www.ignatius.edu/news/september-2017/jug-em-with-a-jugumhttps://catholicphilly.com/2021/10/news/local-news/local-priest-moves-closer-to-sainthood/
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a shortening of juggernaut or an alteration of juke/jook. Compare juug.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
- noun A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]
- verb To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
- verb To commit to jail; to imprison. [Slang]
Etymology [Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See Johannes.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “jug”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details