Definitions for jug

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jug jug

Spelling: [juhg]

IPA: /dʒʌg/

Jug is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in jug (gju).

Definitions for jug

noun

1. a large container usually made of earthenware, metal, or glass, commonly having a handle, a narrow neck, and sometimes a cap or cork.
2. the contents of such a container; jugful:
3. Slang. jail; prison.
4. jugs, Slang: Vulgar. a woman's breasts.
5. a sound made by a bird, especially a nightingale.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into a jug.
2. to stew (meat) in an earthenware jug.
3. Slang. to put in jail; imprison.

verb (used without object)

1. to make such a sound.

Origin of jug

1530-40; perhaps special use of Jug hypocoristic form of Joan, woman's name

Examples for jug

Strain the liquor through a tammis into a jug, with the peel of a lemon cut very thin, and two table-spoonfuls of clarified sugar.

He takes a 2-gallon jug of water out of his freezer and puts it in his insulated lunch bag.

A friend and a tent, a jug of whisky and a lot of jolly good tobacco.

So I carried it way down to the pond and threw it in, jug and all.

So I waited for Baxter to git well, meanin' to make him pay or go to the jug.

Then pour off the thin liquid from the top, and cork the jug tightly.

Then he seized him by the hair and thrust him into the jug of water.

Throughout proceedings this jug was repeatedly raised and toasted to us, his audience.

Plunge it into a jug of cold water, and let it stand for thirty minutes.

Once it
all came to the boil, the jug of blood was mixed with a little vinegar and a little cornmeal and stirred into the stew.