Mug vs Pug - What's the difference?
mug | pug |
(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.
Term of endearment (probably related to puck).
A bargeman.
A harlot; a prostitute.
A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
An upper servant in a great house.
The footprint of an animal. (Also pugmark ) (From the Hindi for 'foot', related to Sanskrit 'padh' and Greek 'ped')
Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil )
A pug mill.
(obsolete, slang) A pugilist or boxer.
(obsolete) An elf or hobgoblin.
(obsolete) chaff; the refuse of grain
Any geometrid moth of the genus .
To mix and stir when wet.
To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound.
In transitive terms the difference between mug and pug
is that mug is to photograph for identification; to take a mug shot while pug is to fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound.As nouns the difference between mug and pug
is that mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer while pug is term of endearment (probably related to puck).As verbs the difference between mug and pug
is that mug is to strike in the face while pug is to mix and stir when wet.As an adjective mug
is easily fooled, gullible.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.
Synonyms
* (face) mush * (gullible person) SeeDerived terms
(face) * mug book * mug shot (gullible person) * mug’s gameSee also
* cup * pannikinDescendants
* Finnish: (l) * Swedish: (l)Verb
(mugg)References
Derived terms
* mug off * mug upReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----pug
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Cotgrave)
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* pug nose * pug-nosedVerb
(pugg)- to pug clay for bricks or pottery