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mug

noun
/mʌɡ/

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”).

Definitions

  1. A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

  2. The face.

    • […] '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.

  3. A gullible or easily cheated person.

    • He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A stupid or contemptible person.

    2. A criminal.

    3. A mug shot.

    4. To strike in the face.

      • 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."

    5. To assault for the purpose of robbery.

    6. To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis

      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.
      • 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 […]

    7. To photograph for identification

      To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.

      • 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.

    8. To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time

      To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

    9. Easily fooled, gullible.

      • "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?"

    10. Uninteresting or unpleasant.

      • 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?

    11. Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

    12. Alternative form of Magh.

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Derived

chug, mean-mug, muggable, muggee, mugger, mug off, mug up, unmugged

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA