mug

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: mŭg, IPA(key): /mʌɡ/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1[edit]

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”), Dutch mok, also of unknown origin. "Face" sense possibly from grotesque faces on certain drinking vessels. "Assault" sense of verb possibly from hitting someone in the face.

Adjective[edit]

mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

  1. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
      "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?"

Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugs)

  1. A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  2. (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
    What an ugly mug.
  3. (slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  4. (Britain, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
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(face):

(gullible person):

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Verb[edit]

mug (third-person singular simple present mugs, present participle mugging, simple past and past participle mugged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, Britain) To strike in the face.
    • 1821, The Fancy, i. p.261:
      Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.
    • 1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue
      And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
    • 1866, London Miscellany, 5 May, p.102:
      "Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."
  2. (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
  3. (intransitive) 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.
    The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.
  4. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.[1]
  5. (Britain, Australia, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
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  1. ^ J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (prepared by), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Claredon Press, Oxford 1991 [1989], →ISBN), page 1129/64

References[edit]

  • “mug” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
  • mug at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2[edit]

Informal variant of motherfucker.

Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugs)

  1. (slang, African American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch mug, from Middle Dutch mugge.

Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugge, diminutive muggie)

  1. (chiefly diminutive) mosquito (insect, elongated fly)

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Albanian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *smuga, cognate to Old English smoca (“smoke”), Old Irish múch (“smoke”), Armenian մուխ (mux)[1].

Noun[edit]

mug m (indefinite plural mugje, definite singular mugu, definite plural mugjet)

  1. dusk, twilight

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  1. ^ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.277

Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

mug c or n (uncountable, singular indefinite mug, singular definite muggen or mugget)

  1. mold

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch mugge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mugjō (“midge”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-. Compare Low German mügge, German Mücke, West Frisian mich, English midge, Danish myg. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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Noun[edit]

mug f or m (plural muggen, diminutive mugje n or muggetje n)

  1. mosquito, any fly of the suborder Nematocera except sometimes the larger tropical species, which are commonly called muskiet
  2. (figuratively) bug, insignificant individual
    Van een mug een olifant maken
    To make a mountain out of a molehill (lit.: to make an elephant out of a mosquito)

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English mug.

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Noun[edit]

mug m (plural mugs)

  1. A large cup, generally used to serve cold drinks, a mug.

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mug m

  1. male slave or servant, serf, bondman

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Volapük[edit]

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Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugs)

  1. mouse (rodent of the family Muridae)

Declension[edit]

declension of mug
singular plural
nominative mug mugs
genitive muga mugas
dative muge muges
accusative mugi mugis
vocative 1 o mug! o mugs!
predicative 2 mugu mugus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

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