English

Adjective

mug ‎(comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

1. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"

Noun

mug ‎(plural mugs)

1. A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
2. (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.

   What an ugly mug.

3. (slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.

   He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.

4. (Britain, Australia, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.

Synonyms

• (face): mush, dial, phiz
• (gullible person): See Wikisaurus:dupe

Derived terms

(face):

• mug book
• mug shot

(gullible person):

• mug’s game

Translations

See also

• cup
• pannikin

Descendants

• Finnish: muki
• Swedish: mugg

Verb

mug ‎(third-person singular simple present mugs, present participle mugging, simple past and past participle mugged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, Britain) To strike in the face.
   • 1821, The Fancy, i. p.261:

     Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.

   • 1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue

     And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,

   • 1866, London Miscellany, 5 May, p.102:

     "Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."

2. (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
3. (intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.

   The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.‎

4. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.^[1]
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

5. Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

References

1. ↑ J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (prepared by), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Claredon Press, Oxford 1991 [1989], ISBN 0-19-861258-3), page 1129/64

Derived terms

• mug off
• mug up

Translations

References

• “mug” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• mug at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

Informal variant of ****.

Noun

mug ‎(plural mugs)

1. (slang, African American Vernacular) **** (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

Anagrams

• gum, GUM

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mugë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *smuga, cognate to Old English smoca ‎(“smoke”), Old Irish múch ‎(“smoke”), Armenian մուխ ‎(mux)^[1].

Noun

mug m (indefinite plural mugje, definite singular mugu, definite plural mugjet)

1. dusk, twilight

Derived terms

• mugull
• mugullon
• mugët

Related terms

• mjegull
• murg
• muzg

References

1. ↑ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.277

Danish

Noun

mug c, n ‎(uncountable, singular indefinite mug, singular definite muggen or mugget)

1. mold

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʏx/
• Rhymes: -ʏx

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mugjō ‎(“midge”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- ‎(“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-. Compare Low German mügge, German Mücke, West Frisian mich, English midge, Danish myg.

Noun

mug f, m ‎(plural muggen, diminutive mugje n or muggetje n)

1. mosquito, except the larger tropical species, which are called muskiet
2. (figuratively) bug, insignificant individual

   Van een mug een olifant maken‎

   To make a mountain out of a molehill (lit.: to make an elephant out of a mosquito)

Derived terms

• muggenbeet
• muggengaas
• muggenolie
• muggenziften
• (species) malariamug, steekmug

French

Etymology

From English mug

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /møɡ/

Noun

mug m ‎(plural mugs)

1. A large cup, generally used to serve cold drinks, a mug.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muɣ/

Noun

mug m

1. male slave or servant, serf, bondman

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: mogh

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muɡ]

Noun

mug ‎(plural mugs)

1. mouse (rodent of the family Muridae)

Declension

Hyponyms

• himug
• jimug
• mugil
• mugül

Hypernyms

• nim
• sügaf
• süganim
• tuetaf
• tuetanim

Derived terms

See also

• rat
• visul
• yat