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Crock vs Mug - What's the difference?

crock | mug |

In transitive terms the difference between crock and mug

is that crock is to store (butter, etc.) in a crock while mug is to photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.

In intransitive terms the difference between crock and mug

is that crock is to give off crock or smut while mug is 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.

As nouns the difference between crock and mug

is that crock is a stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

As verbs the difference between crock and mug

is that crock is to break something or injure someone while mug is to strike in the face.

As an adjective mug is

easily fooled, gullible.

crock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crokke, from (etyl) crocc, . See also (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  • * 1590-96 , '', 1750, ''The Works of Spenser , Volume 3, 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.
  • A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  • (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
    • Old crocks ’ home = home for the aged
  • * 1925 , , 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.
  • * 1932 , Helen Simpson, Boomerang , 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 .”
  • (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
    • Old crocks race = veteran car rally
  • (slang, countable, and, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  • :That is a bunch of crock .
    • The story is a crock .
  • A low stool.
  • * 1709 , '', 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), ''The Tatler , 2007 Facsimile Edition, 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)
  • To break something or injure someone.
  • * 1904 , P.G. Wodehouse, [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/gldbt10.txt]:
    • "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
  • * 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror :
    • Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
  • * 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times :
    • Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 1964 , Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJGAAAAMAAJ], page 109:
    • Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
  • * 2002 , Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZXZ6f2KNLwC], ISBN 1579902731, page 95:
    • In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
  • (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:
    • The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
  • To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
    • (Halliwell)

    Derived terms

    * crocker * crockery * crockpot * crock of gold * crock of shit * crock haircut

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , Scots (crochit), covered.

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off crock or smut.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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