Hitler vs Mug - What's the difference?
hitler | mug |
A surname of Austrian origin.
, dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
* {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
, passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.
* {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
, passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ...
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* {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
, passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein).
(derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
* {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
, passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}
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(archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
(slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
(slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
(UK, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
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.
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(lb) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
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*: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.
As nouns the difference between hitler and mug
is that hitler is (derogatory) an unnecessarily dictatorial person while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.As a proper noun hitler
is a surname of austrian origin.As an adjective mug is
(archaic) easily fooled, gullible.As a verb mug is
to strike in the face.hitler
English
(Adolf Hitler)Proper noun
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Derived terms
* Hitlerian * Hitlerish * Hitlerism * HitleriteNoun
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mug
English
Adjective
(mugger)- "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)- What an ugly mug .
- He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.
