Other forms: jugs
A jug is the container with a handle and a lip for pouring water or milk. A jug of water, a milk jug, fill the jug.
This is the British word; American English says pitcher for the table one and reserves jug for a large container with a narrow neck. A measuring jug is the kitchen tool marked in millilitres. In cricket, a jug is bought by a player who reaches a milestone. Note jug ears, and that jugged hare is a traditional dish cooked in a tall pot, which is where the name comes from.
1nounjugA container with a handle and lip for pouring.
“There is a jug of water on the table and nobody has touched it.”
Patterna jug of + noun (water, milk, cream) · a milk / measuring jug · pour from a jug · jug handle
synonyms: pitcher
jug is a container.
Also accepted in games: pitcher
JUG → glug, glug as it pours
Tip the jug over the glasses and listen: glug, glug, glug, until everyone has water.
The origin is uncertain — probably from Jug, a pet form of the name Joan, used for a serving woman. Several household objects took women's names this way, which is also how a jenny, a jack and a betty got theirs.
Old English
ċēac — pitcher; jug
Middle English
jugge
English, today
jug
From Middle English jugge, of unknown origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA