Noun: mug
Sample Sentences
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[…] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens. [1836, The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, volume 7, page 167:]
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When did ever a gentleman o’ fortune show his stern to that much dollars for a boosy old seaman with a blue mug — and him dead too? [1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:]
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Shut your mug!
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He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
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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. [1940, United States. Congress Senate, Hearings (volume 13, page 27252)]
Nouns inflected like mug
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Swedish Nouns '
mugg', Dutch Nouns '
mok', Old English Nouns '
muga', Old Norse Nouns '
múgr'.
Verbs referencing "mug"
French Nouns
mug, Finnish Nouns
muki, Irish Nouns
muga, Swedish Nouns
mugg, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
mugge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
mugge.