Pail vs Mug - What's the difference?
pail | mug |
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) .
(In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between pail and mug
is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.As an adjective mug is
(archaic) easily fooled, gullible.As a verb mug is
to strike in the face.pail
English
Noun
(en noun)- The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.
Synonyms
* bucketAnagrams
* * * ----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.