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Examples
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Would you crap in a thunder-mug that cost ten minae?
Peace 2000
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Let me not become a thunder-mug for the comic poets.
The Ecclesiazusae 2000
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Xenylla asked for a cup; there wasn't any thunder-mug.
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The bin is full of white flour and the wine-jars run over with fragrant liquor; all the chests are crammed with gold and silver, it is a sight to see; the tank is full of oil, the phials with perfumes, and the garret with dried figs. Vinegar flasks, plates, stew-pots and all the platters are of brass; our rotten old wooden trenchers for the fish have to-day become dishes of silver; even the thunder-mug is of ivory.
Plutus 2000
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a thunder-mug in case you have to pee; I shall hang it up beside you.
The Wasps 2000
chained_bear commented on the word thunder-mug
"'The air is so rich with oxygen, I occasionally think I will pass out, and am obliged to nip into the barracks for a restorative whiff of dirty laundry and chamber pots (though the local usage is "thunder-mug," and for good reason).'"
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 362
December 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word thunder-mug
Excellent.
December 18, 2009