jug
/d͡ʒʌɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'"
- "I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]"
- "I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past.""
- "With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit."
- "I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair."
- "[…] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s."
Etymology
From Middle English jugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒʌɡ/
- British English: /d͡ʒʌɡ/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Slang
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- American usage
- British usage
- Informal