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Mug

//mʌɡ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Easily fooled, gullible. archaic

    ""Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?""

  2. 2
    Uninteresting or unpleasant. slang

    "But anyways, I stayed back a second year and my papa was visiting when momma was opening de report card. Papa gave me de muggest moment in my life like."

Noun
  1. 1
    A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  2. 2
    Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") slang
  3. 3
    Alternative form of Magh. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    with handle and usually cylindrical wordnet
  5. 5
    The face. derogatory, often, slang

    "[…] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens."

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  1. 6
    the human face (‘kisser’ and ‘smiler’ and ‘mug’ are informal terms for ‘face’ and ‘phiz’ is British) wordnet
  2. 7
    A gullible or easily cheated person. derogatory, slang

    "He's a gullible mug – he believed her again."

  3. 8
    a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of wordnet
  4. 9
    A stupid or contemptible person. Australia, Hong-Kong, Ireland, New-Zealand, Singapore, UK, derogatory, slang
  5. 10
    the quantity that can be held in a mug wordnet
  6. 11
    A criminal. slang
  7. 12
    A mug shot. slang

    "Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made."

Verb
  1. 1
    To strike in the face. Ireland, UK, obsolete, transitive

    "Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd."

  2. 2
    To stare awkwardly wordnet
  3. 3
    To assault for the purpose of robbery. transitive
  4. 4
    rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence wordnet
  5. 5
    To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. intransitive

    "The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera."

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  1. 6
    To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of. transitive

    "Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made."

  2. 7
    To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram. Australia, Hong-Kong, Ireland, New-Zealand, Singapore, UK, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (compare Swedish mugg (“mug, jug”), Norwegian mugge (“pitcher, open can for warm drinks”), Danish mugge), or Low German mokke, mukke (“mug”), German Low German Muck (“drinking cup”), Dutch mok (“mug”), also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old English muga (“stack”) and Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”). Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

Etymology 2

Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (compare Swedish mugg (“mug, jug”), Norwegian mugge (“pitcher, open can for warm drinks”), Danish mugge), or Low German mokke, mukke (“mug”), German Low German Muck (“drinking cup”), Dutch mok (“mug”), also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old English muga (“stack”) and Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”). Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

Etymology 3

Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (compare Swedish mugg (“mug, jug”), Norwegian mugge (“pitcher, open can for warm drinks”), Danish mugge), or Low German mokke, mukke (“mug”), German Low German Muck (“drinking cup”), Dutch mok (“mug”), also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old English muga (“stack”) and Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”). Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

Etymology 4

Informal variant of motherfucker.

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