jug

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A container with a handle and a lip, used for holding and pouring liquids.

   She filled a jug with water for the table.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount of liquid that a jug holds.

   He drank a whole jug of lemonade.

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.

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