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Tumbler vs Mug - What's the difference?

tumbler | mug |

As nouns the difference between tumbler and mug

is that tumbler is one who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

As an adjective mug is

easily fooled, gullible.

As a verb mug is

to strike in the face.

tumbler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
  • A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
  • A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
  • A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish his measure.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain.
  • *:"You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied.
  • *:"I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.
  • A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
  • A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
  • (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
  • See also

    * glass * pigeon

    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

    References

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