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Jug   /dʒəg/   Listen
noun
Jug  n.  
1.
A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
2.
A pitcher; a ewer. (Eng.)
3.
A prison; a jail; a lockup. (Slang)
4.
(pl.) A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs. (vulgar slang)


verb
Jug  v. t.  (past & past part. jugged; pres. part. jugging)  
1.
To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
2.
To commit to jail; to imprison. (Slang)


Jug  v. i.  (Zool.)
1.
To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
2.
To nestle or collect together in a covey; said of quails and partridges.





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"Jug" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the reason that, one dark night, In this city by the sea, A stone flew in at the window, hitting The milk-jug and Andrew M'Crie. And once some low-bred tertians came, And bore him away from me, And shoved him into a private house Where ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray
... Park Lane, because I happened to serve a literary man; so he sat down, and in a kind of affected tone cried out, 'Landlord, bring me a glass of cold negus.' The landlord, however, told him that there was no negus, but that, if he pleased, he could have a jug of as good beer as any in the country. 'Confound the beer,' said the valet, 'do you think I am accustomed to such vulgar beverage?' However, as he found there was nothing better to be had, he let the man bring ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... hairs and hayseeds on the milkman's coat. Whenever the car drew up before a house he waited to catch a glimpse of a well scrubbed kitchen or of a softly lighted hall and to see how the servant would hold the jug and how she would close the door. He thought it should be a pleasant life enough, driving along the roads every evening to deliver milk, if he had warm gloves and a fat bag of gingernuts in his pocket to eat from. But the same foreknowledge which had sickened his heart ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... not say that!" She laid down the loaf of bread, the butter, and the milk-jug that she was carrying, and took the coffee from Blake's hands with an air of pretty gravity. "And now, monsieur, where are ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... driving and no one stopped him. Noon came and he still kept on. The boys were getting hungry and thirsty, but the driver did not halt. He pulled out a bag from under the seat and munched a sausage sandwich, washing the food down with draughts from a brown jug. O'Malley was able ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery


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