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Definition of '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.
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(lb) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.References
Derived terms
* mug off
* mug up
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