# jug
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: jŭg, IPA: /d͡ʒʌɡ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌɡ

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

jug (countable and uncountable, plural jugs)
* A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
* The amount that a jug can hold.
* (slang) Jail.
** 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'
** 1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957, page 19:I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]
* (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
** 1985, Epoch, Volumes 24-25:I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."
** 2010, Ben Niemand, The Sexperts, →ISBN:With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.
** 2010, David Mason, Devil's food:I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair.
* (New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
* (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
** 2001, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 482-493, page 8:[…] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.
* (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
* (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
* (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
    Synonym: handle

##### Derived terms

* Bartmann jug
* claret jug
* jug band
* jug-eared
* jug ears
* jug-heavy
* jug hold
* juglet
* jug wine
* little brown jug
* love jug
* measuring jug
* milk jug
* put the plug in the jug
* stone jug
* the jug goes to the well until it breaks
* Toby Fillpot jug
* Toby jug
* water jug

##### Descendants

* → Welsh: jwg, jẁg, siwg

##### Translations
#### Verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)
* (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
    jugged hare
* (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
* (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
** 1916, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 8, in The Exploits of Danby Croker:Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.
* (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* jug on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

Blend of Jack Russell +‎ pug

#### Noun

jug (plural jugs)
* A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
** 2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group:When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.
** 2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited
** 2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business
** 2018, Cheryl Murphy, Dogs just wanna have FUN!, Veloce Publishing, page 110:Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

### Etymology 3

Probably from Latin jugum (“yoke, tether”). A folk etymology claims that it is an acronym for "justice under God" or "judgment under God".

#### Alternative forms

* JUG

#### Noun

jug (plural jugs)
* (US, Roman Catholicism, countable or uncountable) detention (after-school student punishment)
** 1970, Kenneth H. Brown, The Narrows‎, New York City: The Deal Press, via Google Books:“Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”
** 2017 June 12, Stephen, N., S.J. Katsouros, Come To Believe: How the Jesuits are Reinventing Education (Again)‎, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 27:I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.
** 2017 September, Tom Healey, “Jug 'Em with a Jugum”, in Lessons from Loyola Hall‎, Cleveland: Saint Ignatius High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.
** 2018 October 16, Ted Slowik, “Slowik: Reunion reveals changes to high school, people and places in 35 years”, in Chicago Tribune‎, retrieved 2021-11-24:A common infraction that landed pupils in jug was getting caught using a stairwell that was reserved for use by faculty and other adults.
** 2020 March 8, Steele Clevenger, “A Look Back at JUGs”, in The Jesuit Chronicle‎, Beaverton, Oregon: Jesuit High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:In addition to JUGs and disciplinary lectures, spats and hacks, paddles used to smack misbehaving students, often went with receiving a JUG.

##### Usage notes

This is the preferred term for after-school detentions in Roman Catholic schools run by the Society of Jesus in the United States.

#### Verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)
* (US, Roman Catholicism, transitive) to issue a detention (to a student)
** 2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty‎, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 60:Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.
** 2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History‎, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6:The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.

### Etymology 4

Origin uncertain. Perhaps a shortening of juggernaut or an alteration of juke/jook. Compare juug.

#### Alternative forms

* jugg

#### Verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)
* (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
* (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).
    An old lady got jugged outside the bank last night on her way to her car.

##### Derived terms

* jugging

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *jùgъ (“south (wind)”) (cf. South Slavic Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian jug (“south”)).

### Noun

jug m (definite jugu)
* (uncountable) south
    Alternative form: (abbreviation) J

#### Antonyms

* veri

#### Coordinate terms

compass points:
| veriperëndim | veri | verilindje |
| perëndim | | lindje |
| jugperëndim | jug | juglindje |

#### Derived terms

* jugor

#### See also

* jugë

#### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jug”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 160

### Further reading

* “jug”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “jug”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin jugum, iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

### Noun

jug n (plural juguri)
* yoke

#### Related terms

* înjuga
* jugar
* jugastru
* dejuga

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jugъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jûɡ/

### Noun

jȕg m (Cyrillic spelling ју̏г)
* south
    Antonyms: sȅver, sjȅver

#### Related terms

* Jugoslavija
* južni

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: jug

### See also

| N | NW | W | SW | S | SE | E | NE |
| sjever | sjeverozapad | zapad | jugozapadno | jug | jugoistok | istok | sjeveroistok |
| sever | severozapad | | | | | ishod | |
| śever | | | | | | | |

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jugъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /júːk/, /júk/

### Noun

jȗg or jȕg m inan
* south

#### Derived terms

* Jugoslávija
* júžen
* júžina

### Further reading

* “jug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025