jug

5 definitions found

jug - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jug \Jug\, v. i. (Zool.)
     1. To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds
        do, especially the nightingale.
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     2. To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of
        quails and partridges.
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  Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), n. [Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or
     nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See Johannes.]
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     1. A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling
        belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
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     2. A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]
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     3. A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] --Gay.
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     4. (pl.) A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs. [vulgar slang]
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  Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jugged (j[u^]gd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Jugging (j[u^]g"g[i^]ng).]
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     1. To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling
        water; as, to jug a hare.
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     2. To commit to jail; to imprison. [Slang]
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jug - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jug
      n 1: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
      2: the quantity contained in a jug [syn: jug, jugful]
      v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
           imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated
           for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
           lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol,
           put away, remand]
      2: stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"

jug - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "jug":
     adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose,
     can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware,
     ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop,
     crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware,
     ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, glass,
     gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate,
     jail, jar, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen,
     phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory,
     slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase,
     vial