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”), 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)”).[1] Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

"Face" sense possibly from grotesque faces on certain drinking vessels. "Assault" sense of verb possibly from hitting someone in the face.

Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugs)

  1. A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
    A mug
  3. (slang, often derogatory) The face.
    Synonyms: mush, dial, phiz
    What an ugly mug.
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:
      Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
  4. (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe
    He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  5. (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
  6. (slang) A criminal.
Derived terms[edit]
face
gullible person
cup
Descendants[edit]
  • → Finnish: muki
  • → Maltese: magg
  • → Swedish: mugg
  • → Welsh: mẁg, mỳg
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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, UK) 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 May 5, London Miscellany, page 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.
    • 1990 September 17, Larry Rohter, “‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ Puts Rap in Mainstream”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Taping an episode that pairs him with the veteran leading man Richard Roundtree in front of a live audience, Mr. Smith displayed a strong sense of comedic timing, mugged for the camera at will, improvised dialogue with alacrity […]
  4. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
  5. (UK, Australia, Singapore, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
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Adjective[edit]

mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

  1. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
      "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. (Bermuda, slang) Uninteresting or unpleasant.
    • 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun‎[2], archived from the original on 2022-12-12:
      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.
    • 2020 February 4, @makim_ori, Twitter‎[3], archived from the original on 7 July 2023:
      So... complaining about Bermuda being boring/mug on a constant does what exactly?

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")

References[edit]

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mok1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch mug, from Middle Dutch mugge.

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Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugge, diminutive muggie)

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

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Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. dusk, twilight

Declension[edit]

Declension of mug
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mug mugje mugu mugjet
accusative mugun
dative mugu mugjeve mugut mugjevet
ablative mugjesh

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “mug”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 277

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mugg, from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”), see also Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”).

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, from Old Dutch *mugga, from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō (“midge”).

Compare Low German mügge, German Mücke, West Frisian mich, English midge, Danish myg.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. A mosquito, a gnat, any fly of the suborder Nematocera except sometimes the larger tropical species (which are commonly called muskiet).
  2. (figuratively) A bug, an 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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Descendants[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English mug.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mug m (plural mugs)

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

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *mogus, from Proto-Indo-European *mogʰus (“young person”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 (magus, “boy”).

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Noun[edit]

mug m

  1. male slave or servant, serf, bondman
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d10
      Mógi sidi uili do Día; acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarru et déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-som hic.
      They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here.

Inflection[edit]

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mug mugL mogæ, moge, moga
Vocative mug mugL mogu
Accusative mugN mugL mogu
Genitive mogoH, mogaH mogo, moga mogæN, mogeN
Dative mugL mogaib mogaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

The nominative plural appears once as mógi, apparently by attraction to the i-stems.

Descendants[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mug
also mmug after a proclitic 		mug
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mug

  1. Romanization of 𒈮 (mug)

Volapük[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mug (nominative 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 later, non-classical Volapük only

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Terms derived from "mug"

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