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 Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”) and Old English muga (“stack”).[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.

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 beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
    A mug
  3. (slang, often derogatory) The face.
    What an ugly mug.
  4. (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  5. (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
  6. A criminal.
Synonyms[edit]
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(face):

(gullible person):

Descendants[edit]
  • → Finnish: muki
  • → 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, 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.[2]
  5. (UK, Australia, Singapore, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
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References[edit]
  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mok1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
  2. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “mug”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, volume I (A–O), 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1129/64.

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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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mug (plural mugge, diminutive muggie)

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

Descendants[edit]

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

  1. dusk, twilight

Declension[edit]

declension of mug
indefinite forms
(trajta të pashquara) 		definite forms
(trajta të shquara)
singular
(numri njëjës) 		plural
(numri shumës) 		singular
(numri njëjës) 		plural
(numri shumës)
nominative
(emërore) 		mug mugje mugu mugjet
accusative
(kallëzore) 		mug mugje mugun mugjet
genitive
(gjinore)
(i/e/të/së) 		mugu mugjeve mugut mugjevet
dative
(dhanore) 		mugu mugjeve mugut mugjevet
ablative
(rrjedhore) 		mugu mugjesh mugut mugjevet

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mug”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: 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”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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.

Further reading[edit]

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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Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from "mug"

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