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jug
jug1
/jug/, n., v., jugged, jugging.
n.
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: a jug of wine.
3. Slang. jail; prison.
4. jugs, Slang (vulgar). a woman's breasts.
v.t.
5. to put into a jug.
6. to stew (meat) in an earthenware jug.
7. Slang. to put in jail; imprison.
[1530-40; perh. special use of Jug hypocoristic form of Joan, woman's name]
jug2
/jug/, n., v., jugged, jugging.
n.
1. a sound made by a bird, esp. a nightingale.
v.i.
2. to make such a sound.
[1515-25; imit.]

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