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Deadpan vs Mug - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between deadpan and mug

is that deadpan is deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look) while mug is (archaic) easily fooled, gullible.

As nouns the difference between deadpan and mug

is that deadpan is a style of comedic delivery in which something humourous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

As verbs the difference between deadpan and mug

is that deadpan is to express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner while mug is to strike in the face.

deadpan

English

(wikipedia deadpan)

Alternative forms

* dead-pan * dead pan

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look).
  • Having such a face or look (as a person).
  • Impassive (as behaviour or speech).

    • Synonyms

    * poker faced

    Noun

    (-)
  • A style of comedic delivery in which something humourous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
  • * 2007 , , Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
    • MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing .

    Synonyms

    * deadpan comedy * deadpan humour

    Verb

    (deadpann)
  • To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.

    • Anagrams

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    mug

    English

    Adjective

    (mugger)
  • (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  • (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
    • What an ugly mug .
  • (slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
    • He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.
  • (UK, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.

    • Synonyms

    * (face) mush * (gullible person) See

    Derived terms

    (face) * mug book * mug shot (gullible person) * mug’s game

    See also

    * cup * pannikin

    Descendants

    * Finnish: (l) * Swedish: (l)

    Verb

    (mugg)
  • To strike in the face.
  • *1821 , The Fancy , i. p.261:
  • *:Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.
  • *1857 , "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue
  • *:And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
  • *1866 , London Miscellany , 5 May, p.102:
  • *:"Suppose they had Mugged' you?" / "Done what to me?" / "' Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."
  • (lb) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
  • (lb) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
  • :
  • (lb) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

    • References

    Derived terms

    * mug off * mug up

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