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3-letter words (2 found)

GUM,MUG,

2-letter words (4 found)

GU,MU,UG,UM,

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Definitions and meaning of mug

mug

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mŭg, IPA(key): /mʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1

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”).

"Face" sense possibly from grotesque faces on certain drinking vessels. "Assault" sense of verb possibly from hitting someone in the face.

Noun

mug (plural mugs)

  1. A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  3. (slang, often derogatory) The face.
    Synonyms: mush, dial, phiz
  4. (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe
  5. (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
  6. (slang) A criminal.
  7. (slang) A mug shot.
    • 1940, United States. Congress Senate, Hearings (volume 13, page 27252)
      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.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → French: mug, → French: meugue
  • → Finnish: muki
  • → Maltese: magg
  • → Swedish: mugg
  • → Welsh: mẁg, mỳg
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Verb

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.
    • 1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue
      And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
  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.
  4. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.
    • 1940, United States. Congress Senate, Hearings (volume 13, page 27252)
      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.
  5. (UK, Australia, Singapore, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
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Adjective

mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

  1. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
  2. (Bermuda, slang) Uninteresting or unpleasant.

Etymology 2

Informal variant of motherfucker.

Noun

mug (plural mugs)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

References

  • “mug”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “mug”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • Jonathon Green (2024) “mug adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  • “mug, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

  • GUM, Gum, MGU, gum

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mug, from Middle Dutch mugge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mœχ/

Noun

mug (plural mugge, diminutive muggie)

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

Descendants

  • → English: muggie

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • mugë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *smuga, cognate to Old English smoca (“smoke”), Old Irish múch (“smoke”), Armenian մուխ (mux).

Noun

mug m (plural mugje, definite mugu, definite plural mugjet)

  1. dusk, twilight

Declension

Derived terms

  • mugull
  • mugullon
  • mugët

Related terms

  • mjegull
  • murg
  • muzg

References

Danish

Etymology

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

mug c or n (uncountable, singular indefinite mug, singular definite muggen or mugget)

  1. mold

Dutch

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /mʏx/
  • Hyphenation: mug
  • Rhymes: -ʏx

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • meuzie

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: mug
    • → English: muggie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English mug.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mœɡ/

Noun

mug m (plural mugs)

  1. a large cup, generally used to serve cold drinks, a mug

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mogus, from Proto-Indo-European *mogʰus (“young person”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 (magus, “boy”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muɣ/

Noun

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

Inflection

The nominative plural appears once as mógi, apparently by attraction to the i-stems.

Descendants

  • Irish: mogh

Mutation

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mug, mog”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Sumerian

Romanization

mug

  1. Romanization of 𒈮 (mug)

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [muɡ]

Noun

mug (nominative plural mugs)

  1. mouse (rodent of the family Muridae)

Declension

Hypernyms

  • nim
  • sügaf
  • süganim
  • tuetaf
  • tuetanim

Hyponyms

  • himug
  • jimug
  • mugil
  • mugül

Derived terms

See also

  • rat
  • visul
  • yat

Source: wiktionary.org