mug
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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)”). Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).
Inflected forms:
form: mugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mugged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mugger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: muggest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
pos: noun
gloss: The face.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
slang
examples: […] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens.
When did ever a gentleman o’ fortune show his stern to that much dollars for a boosy old seaman with a blue mug — and him dead too?
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.
gloss: A gullible or easily cheated person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
gloss: A stupid or contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Hong-Kong
Ireland
New-Zealand
Singapore
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: A criminal.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A mug shot.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.
gloss: To strike in the face.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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,
"Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."
gloss: To assault for the purpose of robbery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.
Her dress is too obviously "costume," and Ford-Smith mugs too broadly for us to forget, as we should, that Katie is a theatrical invention.
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 […]
gloss: To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
gloss: To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Hong-Kong
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
Singapore
UK
slang
gloss: Easily fooled, gullible.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: "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?"
gloss: Uninteresting or unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 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.
So... complaining about Bermuda being boring/mug on a constant does what exactly?
Related words: cup
pannikin
Derived words: chug
mean-mug
muggable
muggee
mugger
mug off
mug up
unmugged
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