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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jug
n 1: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
2: the quantity contained in a jug [syn: 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,
gaol, put away, remand]
2: stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"
[also: jugging, jugged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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