jug
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
jug
n 1: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
2: the quantity contained in a jug [syn: {jug}, {jugful}]
v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated
for the rest of his life" [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
{lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol},
{put away}, {remand}]
2: stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jug \Jug\ (j[u^]g), n. [Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or
nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See {Johannes}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling
belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
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2. A pitcher; a ewer. [Eng.]
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3. A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] --Gay.
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4. (pl.) A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs. [vulgar slang]
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "jug":
adobe, bastille, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calabash, calaboose,
can, canteen, carafe, carboy, caster, cement, ceramic ware,
ceramics, china, chokey, clink, confine, constrain, cooler, coop,
crock, crockery, cruet, cruse, decanter, demijohn, enamelware,
ewer, fifth, firebrick, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, glass,
gourd, hipflask, hoosegow, hot-water bottle, immure, incarcerate,
jail, jar, jeroboam, lockup, lota, magnum, mussuk, olla, pen,
phial, pokey, porcelain, pot, pottery, prison, quod, refractory,
slammer, stir, stoup, tile, tiling, urn, vacuum bottle, vase,
vial
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