Mug

Definition: Mug

Mug

Noun

1. The quantity that can be held in a mug.

2. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.

3. The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face'; `phiz' is British).

4. With handle and usually cylindrical.

Verb

1. Rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mug" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Note: Mug \Mug\, noun. [Compare to Ir. mugam mug, mucog cup.]. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MUG

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mug

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Calefaction

Pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker.

Receptacle

Compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher, punch bowl, chafing dish.

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Stealing

Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.

Crosswords: Mug

Albanian (twilight), Dutch (gnat).

Who is gonna mug two black fellas, holding pistols, sat in a car that is worth less than your shirt (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg)

Here, Richard, have a mug. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

My old mug shot (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan)

Dos thus have thou a mug of ale for me and me mate, for he hath been pitched in battle with a fort knight and has the king's thirst for the frosty brew dos thou might have for thus (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.)

Baby, Rule in the spot; and the mug and the watch ugly (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule)

The Great American Mug (1945)

Mug Town (1943)

The Battered Mug (1930)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Incredible Truth Mug (reference)

• Mug Shots : A Police Artist's Guide To Remembering Faces (reference)

• The Bottom of the Mug (reference)

• The Shaving Mug & Barber Bottle Book: With Value Guide (reference)

• There's a Bug in My Mug! (Pop into Phonics Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bootleg Like a Mug [IMPORT] (reference)

• Don't Mug Yourself Pt.1 (Enhanced) [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker DCM18S Brew 'n Go Personal Coffeemaker with Travel Mug (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A breakfast is set up on a blue and white striped tablecloth, including: a yellow bowl of cereal with raspberries, a glass of orange juice and a glass mug of tea. Also on the table are a brightly colored napkin and silverware in the foreground and a folded newspaper in the background. A second slide shows the same objects from a different angle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A mug of golden beer with a white froth; against a black background. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

There are royal blue bowls (1 large, 1 small) full of white popcorn, on a white tablecloth. Behind the bowls are a glass mug of tea with a lemon slice and a cinnamon stick and a red poppy. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A cigar, Spain, and a mug of beer, United States, discussing tax increases on beer and cigars to create war revenue] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mug shots of George "Junior" McCoy and Robert Carl Parker, who allegedly beat to death William Remington, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bottle of Congress beer. Tray with bottle, mug and bottle opener I. Credit: Library of Congress.

A rake's progress: The first step: an old widow woman offers him a mug of pumpkin wine. He finds it amusing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Two or three others leaned out through the open window, each holding his mug of beer, with red faces and sleepy eyes

You know what little Father Lenoir is? It is the mug of red for a six spot

After a while a young woman opened the door and brought me out a big mug of milk

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Bangladesh

On May 16, police in Tongi arrested a 15-year-old boy under suspicion that he was "looking for someone to mug." The police tied him with ropes and beat him with sticks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "mug": beer mug ♦ coffee mug ♦ mug book ♦ mug file ♦ mug it up ♦ mug shot ♦ mug up ♦ shaving mug ♦ thunder mug ♦ toby mug ♦ ugly mug. Additional references.

Beginning with "mug": mug-and-snatch, mug-house, mug-houses, mug-photoed, mug-punters, mug-shot, mug-shots, mug-wump.

Ending with "mug": coffee-mug.

Albanian

turi (muzzle), sulmoj (assail, assault, attack, attempt, charge, dog, fall on, fall to, fly at, gain ground, gun for, harass, hit, hold up, jump, lace into, lash, light into, oppugn, raid, waylay), plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, Harry, hijack, loot, maraud, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack), kupë (beaker, canakin, canikin, cannikin, canonry, canopy, cap, chalice, cornet, cup, cupping glass, goblet, heart, jorum, Mazer, patella, plate, rummer, torus, tumbler, winebowl), krikëll (tankard), huligan (hoodlum, hooligan, teddy boy), grimasë (grimace, mopes, mouth, muzzle, Snoot), gotë e madhe, gojë (chamber, clam, kisser, mouth, potato trap, potato-box, tongue), gangster (bandit, gangster, mobster), fotografoj (photograph, take a photograph), bardhak, bëj grimasë (grimace, make faces, make smb.'s mouth-water, mop and mow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوز (cone, ear, ewer, jug, tankard), ‏كشر (grimace, grin, mow, pull a face, scowl, sniff), ‏هاجم شخصا من الخلف, ‏لوى وجهه, ‏وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, destine, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mush, officer, orient oneself, orientate, pan, phiz, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer, visage), ‏سفاح (atrocious, bloodthirsty, gorilla, hoodlum, hooligan, killer, slaughterer, thug), ‏سلب بالعنف, ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏صورة لوجه شخص, ‏صور فوتغرافيا (photograph, shoot), ‏المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), ‏إبريق خزفي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гримаса (face, grimace, mop, mouth, mow), аджамия, жертва (casualty, fall guy, fool, immolation, oblation, offering, patsy, prey, sacrifice, victim), зубрач (crammer, dig, grind, grinder, plodder, sap, swot), зубря (dig, grind, stew, swot), мутра (dial, figurehead, map, pan, puss), муцунка, нападам откъм гърба, балама (muggins, patsy, pigeon, punk, pushover, sitter), ограбвам (amass by robbery, fleece, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, pull, rip off), уста (kisser, mouth, osculum, potato trap, potato-box, puss, rattletrap, rat-trap, throat, trap, yap), гримаснича (grimace, mouth), канче (canakin, canikin, cannikin, noggin, pannikin, pot), кълва (cram, dab, nibble, pick), фотографирам (photo, photograph), чаша (beaker, cup, glass, glassful, go, Mazer), халба, снимка на заподозрян престъпник, удушавам (stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate), новак (acolyte, apprentice, catechumen, cub, fresher, freshman, greener, infant, neophyte, novice, tiro, tyro, youngster). (various references)

Chinese 

茶杯 (cup), 杯子 (Cup). (various references)

Czech

moula (drip, goon, zombie), přepadnout (assail, assault, raid, steal, stick up, swoop, waylay), džbánek (pitcher). (various references)

Danish

krug (beer mug, tankard). (various references)

Dutch

tronie (phiz), smoelwerk (phiz), smoel (phiz), bakkes (phiz). (various references)

Esperanto

vizaĝaĉo (phiz). (various references)

Farsi 

کتک زدن (Beat, Bludgeon, Clobber, Drub, Smack, Thrash), لیوان (Glass, Tumbler), ساده لوح (Credulous, Dupe, Nincompoop, Oaf, Sawney, Simpleton, Sot), عکس شخص محکوم , ابخوری , دهن کجی (Grimace), دهان (Gob, Jib, Puss, Slobber, Throat). (various references)

Finnish

mukiloida (beat up, belabour), muki, seideli (tankard), ryöstää (abduct, kidnap, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, rob, sack). (various references)

French

poire, nigaud, gobelet, chope (beer mug), broc, bouille, bille, andouille (mutt), agresser. (various references)

German

krug (box, container, flagon, jar, jug, jugful, pitcher, pot, potful, Stein, tankard, vessel), becher (beaker, beakers, chalice, cup, goblet, jug, noggin, tub, tumbler, tumblers). (various references)

Greek 

κούπα (beaker, cup, hearts [cards], tankard). (various references)

Hebrew 

להזמין שתיה, כד (ewer, jug, oval, pitcher, rounded, stoup, vase, vessel), ספל גדול. (various references)

Hungarian

magoló (dig, plodder, sap), korsó (crock, jar, jug, pitcher, pot, stoop), bögre (cruse, cup, jar, pot). (various references)

Indonesian

cangkir (cup, small mug, spur). (various references)

Inuktitut

tiiturut. (various references)

Italian

muso (face, front, long face, mouth, muzzle, nose, yap), orcia (jug, pitcher, tankard), gonzo (dupe, Looby, nincompoop, ninny, noddy, noodle), esame (approval, checkup, competitive exam, exam, examination, final, investigation, probation, review, search, survey, test), ceffo (muzzle, snout), calice (calix, calyx, chalice, cup, glass, goblet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

面 (corner, face, face guard, facial features, mask, page, side or facet, surface). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

マッグ , つら (corner, face, face guard, facial features, mask, page, side or facet, surface), めん (corner, dismissal, face, face guard, facial features, mask, noodles, page, raw cotton, side or facet, surface). (various references)

Korean 

찻잔. (various references)

Manx

puss, ommidan (crackpot, cretin, dope, featherbrain, fool, imbecile, loony, moron, nutcase, twit, widgeon), meddyr, bonkan (buffoon, bumpkin, clown, crackpot, rustic). (various references)

Pig Latin

ugmay.(various references)

Portuguese

rosto (countenance, face, feature, frontispiece, muz, phiz, proboscis, trunk, visage), fotografar (emote, kodak, photo, photograph, shoot), face (cheek, face, jowl, muz, phiz), estudar muito (bone, emote), estrangular (choke, emote, garotte, garrotte, quell, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), conteúdo de uma caneca (muz), careta (antic, frump, grimace, mop, mow, pout, snoot), canecada (muz), caneca (crock, muz), bebida refrescante (non-alcoholic beverage, soft drink), atacar (assail, assault, attack, bayonet, charge, come upon, emote, hammer, invade, lunge, mob, oppugn, prey, rocket, run at, strike, strike out). (various references)

Romanian

mutrã (face, figure-head, index, pan, Phiz, Snoot, snout), moacã (index, Phiz, physiognomy), machia (make up), jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, maraud, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe, spoil), ataca (affect, approach, assault, attack, engage, fall, go at, go for, hit, pelt, pirate, Raven, start, tackle, thrust), bãuturã rãcoritoare (refection, refresher, refreshment), canã (can, cup, jar, jug, pannikin, pot, tankard), faţã (appearance, aspect, complexion, countenance, face, forefront, foreground, front, head, index, look, Phiz, Snoot, surface, visage), face strâmbãturi, farda (make up, paint), figurã (aspect, chessman, effigy, face, figure, form, image, inset, look, picture card, shape, snout, type, visage), fotografia (Kodak, photograph, shoot, take), învãţa mult pentru examen, halbã (tankard), trage o palmã, nãtãfleţ (blockhead, duffer, foolish, pigeon, silly, spoony), pãlmui (cuff, slap), se strâmba (cast, make a wry face, make a wry mouth, make faces, pull faces, spring, twist), strâmbãturã (grimace, mouth), toci (benumb, blunt, con, cram, cram up, dull, fret, grind, hack, plug, rebate, take the edge off, wear), grimasã (grimace, mouth, stitch). (various references)

Russian 

рыло (muzzle, nose, snout), рот (gob, jaw, kisser, mouth, potato trap, potato-box), кружка (can, poorbox, stein, tankard), грабить кружка;морда, гримасничать (grimace, make a face, make faces, mop and mow, mouth, pull a face, pull faces), гримаса (face, grimace, mop, mow, pout), новичок (apprentice, aprentice, beginner, catechumen, colt, cub, first-timer, fresher, green hand, greener, greenhorn, newcom, newcomer, new-comer, novice, recruit, rookie, tenderfeet, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro), нападать сзади, морда (muzzle, snout), зубрить (bone up, dig, grind, notch, swot), зубрила (grind, sap, swot), простак (boob, coot, gaby, goose, greener, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, simpleton, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham), прохладительный напиток. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

njuška (mouth, muzzle, neb, nozzle, snout), napasti i opljačkati, krigla, kreveljiti se (grimace, make a face, mop and mow), gubica (gob, jaw, neb). (various references)

Shona

bhiriki. (various references)

Spanish

tazón (basin, bowl, cootie, pan, pelvis), primo (cousin, dupe, muggins, prime, sucker), jeta (clock, dial, pan), jarro (box, container, jug, jugful, pitcher, pot, tankard, vessel), jarra (beaker, jar, jug, pitcher, schooner), hocico (muzzle, Neb, nose, snout), caliz (chalice, cup), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

Swedish

sejdel (tankard), mugg (can, nogging), kräk (beast, goof, moron, rotter, skunk, worm, wretch), bägare (chalice, cup, goblet), ansikte (countenance, face, physiognomy). (various references)

Thai

เหยือก (jug), ทำร้ายเพื่อชิงทรัพย์, หน้า (kip, kipper, mush), ปริมาณความจุหนึ่งเหยือก, คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

maymunluk etmek, zevzeklik etmek (flannel, spoon), surat etme (making face, sulk, sulks), kupa (cup, goblet, heart, pot), kulplu bardak, komik mimikler yapmak, ineklemek (bone up on, cram, dig, grind, mug up, swot), inek (cow), herif (blighter, bloke, bozo, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, sod, stooge, varlet), fotoğrafını çekmek (photograph), enayi (chump, dupe, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gudgeon, gull, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker), eşkıya (bandit, brigand, highwayman, thug), çok çalışmak (bang away, bone up on, mug up, slog, slog away, swot, swot up, try hard, work very hard). (various references)

Ukrainian

рот (bazoo, mouth), кухоль (can, jug, pot), прохолодний напій. (various references)

Vietnamese 

miệng (copper, nozzle), thằng khờ, học sinh học gạo, chén vại, ca, anh chàng cả tin học sinh chăm học. (various references)

Welsh

godard (cup). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mug": mugful, mugfuls, mugg, muggar, muggars, mugged, muggee, muggees, mugger, muggers, muggier, muggiest, muggily, mugginess, mugginesses, mugging, muggings, muggins, muggs, muggur, muggurs, muggy, mugs, mugshot, mugshots, mugwort, mugworts, mugwump, mugwumps. (additional references)

Words ending with "mug": almug, smug. (additional references)

Words containing "mug": almugs, antismuggling, smugger, smuggest, smuggle, smuggled, smuggler, smugglers, smuggles, smuggling, smugly, smugness, smugnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mug" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eug, euug, gmwu, kug, Magb, Magd, magh, magx, magz, mcu, megy, Meig, melg, meog, Meung, mgb, mgy, mhg, mig, migg, mij, mirg, Mmuh, mng, Mog, Mo'g, Moga, mogg, mogh, mogy, moig, moog, morg, moug, mougy, Mpu, mru, mtg, mu, mub, muc, mucg, muf, muga, muge, mugg, mugga, mugi, mugu, muh, muj, mulga, mup, muq, mur, murg, murgi, Murgu, muu, muuu, muv, muw, mux, muy, muz, Mxu, mygi, Myung, Ngum, nug, Nugw, Omvg, pmug, umb, Umc, Umh, Uml, umt, vug, Xmu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gum.

-1 letter: mu, um.

+1 letter: gaum, geum, glum, grum, gums, mugg, mugs, smug.

+2 letters: algum, almug, begum, degum, gamut, gaums, geums, glume, grume, grump, gumbo, gumma, gummy, jugum, magus, mogul, muggs, muggy, mungo, sagum.

+3 letters: algums, almugs, begums, degums, fuming, gamuts, gaumed, gazump, glomus, glumes, glumly, glumpy, gomuti, gonium, granum, grumes, grumps, grumpy, guimpe, gumbos, gummas, gummed, gummer, gunman, gunmen, gypsum, humbug, impugn, jugums, legume, magnum, maguey, mauger, maugre, midgut, moguls, morgue, mugful, muggar, mugged, muggee, mugger, muggur, muling, mungos, muring, musing, muskeg, muting, nutmeg, regnum, smudge, smudgy, smugly, subgum, tergum, ugsome, umping, zeugma.