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jug

UK/d͡ʒʊɡ/ US/d͡ʒʌɡ/ fairly common informal slang uk us
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

the quantity contained in a jug

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verb

1.

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

  • “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”
  • “the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life”
Synonyms
2.

stew in an earthenware jug

  • “jug the rabbit”

Origin

From Middle English jugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.

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