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Fug vs Jug - What's the difference?

fug | jug |

As nouns the difference between fug and jug

is that fug is only used in mit fug und recht while jug is a serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, a handle and often a stopper or top.

As a verb jug is

to stew in an earthenware jug etc.

fug

English

Noun

  • A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 4
  • On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
  • *2004 , , "Boxing Day", National Review , November 8, 2004
  • The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
  • The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.

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    jug

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, a handle and often a stopper or top.
  • The amount that a jug can hold.
  • (slang) Jail.
  • (vulgar, slang, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breasts.
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  • (New Zealand) A kettle.
  • Derived terms

    * jug band * jug ears * measuring jug

    Verb

    (jugg)
  • To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
  • jugged hare
  • (slang) To put into jail.
  • To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
  • (of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.