Mug Meaning
/mʌɡ/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
nounThe face.
Sentence Examples
This beer mug holds one pint.
He drank that large beer mug dry.
This beer mug holds a pint. But how much is that?
CEFR Practice Quiz
She poured hot coffee into a ceramic ____ and sipped it slowly while reading the news.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She poured herself a large ____ of steaming hot chocolate and sat down by the fireplace to relax after a very long and exhausting day at work.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] '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:
"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:
"Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time."
— 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:
"Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd."
— 1821, The Fancy, i. p.261:
""Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know.""
— 1866 May 5, London Miscellany, page 102:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She poured hot coffee into a ceramic ____ and sipped it slowly while reading the news.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She poured herself a large ____ of steaming hot chocolate and sat down by the fireplace to relax after a very long and exhausting day at work.