Talk:jug

Jug : in summerian DUG (pronounced probably djug) means a big vessel. In "Dossiers d'archéologie" Nov-dec 2016. c1moulinC1moulin (talk) 19:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

The world is full of coincidences. For this to be plausible, you would have to explain how it got to modern English virtually unchanged with no known usage for thousands of years. There are a few words that have survived from that long ago, but they have long records of borrowing and usage in various cultures, and they generally are changed extensively in the process. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:54, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Etymology for sense "jail"

I read in a book somewhere that jug in the sense of "jail" is a loanword from Mexican Spanish juzgado, which is also the source of hoosegow. Presumably the word was brought to us by early English-speaking Americans who were arrested and imprisoned in Mexico and saw the unfamiliar word JUZGADO as one of their last memories of the outside world. Has anyone else ever heard this story? It's certainly not proven, but I find it more believable than that a word for a container we drink out of randomly mutated into a word for a place where we put people away. On the other hand I never really understood how it came to mean "breasts". Lollipop (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2017 (UTC) an alternate account of —Soap—

Replying to myself (on my main account) .... i just searched google for the two words jug juzgado and found quite a few supports for the etymology, but no details. Another etymology i found on one of those pages suggests it could be from yoke, though irregularly. The best page might be <https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/542663/how-and-when-did-jug-come-to-be-a-slang-term-for-prison>. the juzgado theory seems less likely to me now. Also, i suppose it really could just be the sense of container transferred from a small one to a large one. as for breasts, it could based on jugs having handles, jugs holding milk, or (less likely) the maidservant meaning.—Soap— 15:34, 21 March 2022 (UTC)