mug
noun
[ mʌɡ ]
• a large cup, typically cylindrical with a handle and used without a saucer.
• "she picked up her coffee mug"
Similar:
cup,
tankard,
glass,
stein,
flagon,
pot,
pint pot,
toby jug,
beaker,
seidel,
stoup,
• a person's face.
• "I don't want to see Barry's ugly mug when I get home"
Similar:
face,
features,
countenance,
physiognomy,
clock,
mush,
phiz,
phizog,
dial,
boat race,
coupon,
bake,
puss,
pan,
visage,
front,
• a stupid or gullible person.
• "they were no mugs where finance was concerned"
Similar:
fool,
simpleton,
innocent,
dupe,
gull,
sucker,
soft/easy touch,
pushover,
chump,
noddle,
dummy,
dope,
dimwit,
dumbo,
nerd,
knucklehead,
lamebrain,
pea-brain,
pudding-head,
thickhead,
wooden-head,
pinhead,
airhead,
birdbrain,
muggins,
juggins,
charlie,
patsy,
sap,
schlemiel,
pigeon,
mark,
dumbhead,
dumbass,
dill,
asshat,
• a violent criminal or troublemaker.
mug
verb
• attack and rob (someone) in a public place.
• "he was mugged by three men who stole his bike"
Similar:
assault,
attack,
set upon,
beat up,
knock down,
rob,
jump,
rough up,
lay into,
work over,
steam,
duff up,
do over,
stick up,
• make faces, especially silly or exaggerated ones, before an audience or a camera.
• "he mugged for the camera"
Origin:
early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting an earthenware bowl): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian mugge, Swedish mugg ‘pitcher with a handle’.
mug
verb
• learn or revise a subject as far as possible in a short time.
• "I'm constantly having to mug up things ahead of teaching them"
Origin:
mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
