Jug vs Crock - What's the difference?
jug | crock |
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.
To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
(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.
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
* 1590-96 , '', 1750, ''The Works of Spenser , Volume 3,
A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
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* 1932 , Helen Simpson, Boomerang ,
(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
:That is a bunch of crock .
A low stool.
* 1709 , '', 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), ''The Tatler , 2007 Facsimile Edition,
To break something or injure someone.
* 1904 , P.G. Wodehouse, [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/gldbt10.txt]:
* 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror :
* 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times :
(textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
* 1917 , John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ], US Patent 1371572, page 1:
* 1964 , Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJGAAAAMAAJ], page 109:
* 2002 , Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZXZ6f2KNLwC], ISBN 1579902731, page 95:
(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
* 1900 , H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [http://books.google.com/books?id=PeECAAAAYAAJ], page 21:
To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
In transitive terms the difference between jug and crock
is that jug is to stew in an earthenware jug etc while crock is to store (butter, etc.) in a crock.In intransitive terms the difference between jug and crock
is that jug is to utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale while crock is to give off crock or smut.jug
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(en noun)Derived terms
* jug band * jug ears * measuring jugExternal links
* (wikipedia "jug")Verb
(jugg)- jugged hare
crock
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) crokke, from (etyl) crocc, . See also (l).Noun
(en noun)page 181,
- Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock ; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
- Old crocks ’ home = home for the aged
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,
- He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance.“Not so bad that, for a crock ,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,
- He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can?t ask a girl to marry a crock .”
- Old crocks race = veteran car rally
- The story is a crock .
page 12,
- I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
Verb
(en verb)- "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
- Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
- Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
- thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock , and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
- Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
- In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
- The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
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