jug

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   stew in an earthenware jug

   jug the rabbit

2. 2
   noun

   Jail.

   '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?'

3. 3
   noun

   A woman's breasts.

   I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."

4. 4
   noun

   A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

   […] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.

5. 5
   verb

   To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

   jugged hare

6. 6
   verb

   To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

   Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.

7. 7
   noun

   A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   Detention (after-school student punishment).

   “Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”

Etymology

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.