## Meanings
1. A large cup with a handle, used for hot drinks.
2. To attack and rob someone in a public place.
3. A person's face.
4. A person who is easily fooled or cheated.

## Examples
- She poured the coffee into a big blue mug.
- He was mugged on his way home from work last night.
- Get your ugly mug out of my photo!
- He's such a mug that he believed her excuse again.

## Derived Forms
- chug
- mean-mug
- muggable
- muggee
- mugger
- unmugged

## Related Forms
- cup
- pannikin

## 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”).

## AI 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”). In present-day English its meanings include a large cup with a handle, used for hot drinks, to attack and rob someone in a public place, and a person's face. Related and derived forms include cup, pannikin, chug, and mean-mug.

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