Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, often rounded vessel of earthenware, glass, or metal with a small mouth, a handle, and usually a stopper or cap.
- noun The amount that a jug can hold.
- noun A small pitcher.
- noun Slang A jail.
- noun Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.
- transitive verb To stew (a hare, for example) in an earthenware jug or jar.
- transitive verb Slang To put into jail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel, usually made of earthenware, metal, or glass, of various sizes and shapes, and generally provided with a handle or ear, used for holding and conveying liquors; a drinking-vessel; a pitcher; a ewer; in the United States, specifically, an earthenware vessel with a swelling or a cylindrical body, a handle, and a narrow neck and orifice, usually stopped by a cork. As a quantity of ale or beer, a jug is usually a pint.
- noun A prison; a jail: often called the stone jug.
- noun A low woman.
- To nestle together; collect in a covey, as partridges: sometimes used as transitive with reflexive pronoun.
- To put into a jug; cook by putting into a jug, and this into boiling water.
- To commit to jail; imprison.
- noun A sound fancied to resemble the note uttered by the nightingale and some other birds.
- noun An act of worship by a Brahman supposed to give him preternatural power.
- To utter a particular sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Zoöl.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- intransitive verb To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
- transitive verb To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water.
- transitive verb Slang To commit to jail; to imprison.
- noun A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
- noun engraving A pitcher; a ewer.
- noun Slang A prison; a jail; a lockup.
- noun vulgar slang A woman's breasts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively smallmouth or spout, ahandle and often astopper ortop . - noun The
amount that a jug can hold. - noun slang
Jail . - noun vulgar, slang A
woman 'sbreasts . - noun New Zealand A kettle.
- verb transitive To
stew in anearthenware 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 To nestle or collect together in a
covey .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a jug
- verb stew in an earthenware jug
- noun a large bottle with a narrow mouth
- verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You know right away how you've done and the jug is about the same size as the heart/lungs on a deer.
Too Much Accuracy? 2008
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In Taoist fashion, the jug is a clearing through which the fourfold comes to presence, as it gathers together the earth's soil and the sky's rain in wine that mortals pour in libation to the gods.
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The empty space, this nothing of the jug, is what the jug is as the holding vessel ... [t] he vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.
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L'avocat général a requis vendredi de quinze à vingt ans de prison contre Jacques Viguier, professeur de droit toulousain jugé en appel par la cour d'assises du Tarn pour le meurtre de son épouse, Suzanne, mystérieusement disparue depuis le 27 février 2000. 19
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People used to make air tanks our of them - not a good idea because compressed air contains moisture and it rusts the jug from the inside out which can cause catastrophic failure under pressure.
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File this one into the “interesting food experiments” file — Instructables member BongoDrummer came up with this for days when the milk jug is inexplicably empty.
Emergency Breakfast Cake, Aka Cereal Omelette | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The Kraken depicted on its bewitching, double-handled jug is a giant octopus, but the word also refers to a giant squid -- in fact, to any colossal sea monster.
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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L'avocat général a requis vendredi de quinze à vingt ans de prison contre Jacques Viguier, professeur de droit toulousain jugé en appel par la cour d'assises du Tarn pour le meurtre de son épouse, Suzanne, mystérieusement disparue depuis le 27 février 2000. 19
Disappearance 2010
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The Kraken depicted on its bewitching, double-handled jug is a giant octopus, but the word also refers to a giant squid -- in fact, to any colossal sea monster.
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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People used to make air tanks our of them - not a good idea because compressed air contains moisture and it rusts the jug from the inside out which can cause catastrophic failure under pressure.
reesetee commented on the word jug
An informal name for the Scots pint, equal to about 1.80 U.S. liquid quarts (1.7 liters). Specifically, the jug of Stirling, the actual vessel on display at the Stirling Museum, was the legal standard for Scottish volume measurements before British Imperial units.
November 6, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word jug
To cook in an earthenware pot, as in this 1854 recipe for jugged hare: Link
April 19, 2011