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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



... over along in the end cottage, old sport,' he said with a grin, 'he'll be most 'appy, I've no doubt to personally conduct to the old pot-an-pan, and while you're there just ask him to let you have that jug of defaulters' extra milk for me.' It was a 'wheeze' among the boys to send a poor innocent bloke off for this milk. The point of the 'wheeze' is in the fact that as defaulters are chaps doing jankers (Anglice—punishment) they are hardly likely to get any extra milk dished out to them. I ...
— War and the Weird • Forbes Phillips
... beneath the bough A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou Sitting beside me in the wilderness ...
— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton
... Bird so sings, yet so does wail? O 'tis the ravished Nightingale. Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries, And still her woes at Midnight rise. Brave prick song! who is't now we hear? None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The Morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat ...
— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson
... grocery with a flamboyant inscription over its closed shutters. All the windows were open, hung inside with cheap lace curtains, and protected with dust-screens. He pictured the cold food probably laid out within, and his imagination struck into being a tall glass jug of something like claret-cup, still half-full. ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson
... would have exploded had she not expressed her views. Harrison had chosen the moment when Captain Stewart had gone to his room just before supper that eventful Sunday evening, but Mammy spoke when she carried up to him the little jug of mulled cider for which Severndale was famous and which, when cider was to be had, she had never failed to carry to "her boy," as Neil Stewart, in spite of his forty-six years, still ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson


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