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A handle, a spout, and the ego to call itself indispensable at every dinner table.
means A deep container, usually with a handle and a narrow mouth or spout, used for holding and pouring liquids.
from A word that surfaced in late medieval English, where 'Jug' was a homely pet form of women's names like Joan or Judith — much the way 'jack' and 'jill' became generic household labels. From a familiar name for a serving maid it slid onto the vessel she carried, so the jug is essentially named after the kind of person once trusted to pour your drink.
- jug bands
- You blow across the empty mouth for a tuba bassline
- prison slang
- Jug meant jail before it meant lemonade
- jugular
- Latin for collar, the throat's most important vessel
- ear shape
- Sticking-out ears are nicknamed jug ears
- milk record
- Plastic gallon jugs arrived only in the 1960s
bellarmine jug — 16th-century german stoneware vessel with a bearded face, worth thousands at auction
ewer jug — medieval pitcher with wide mouth and handle, used in churches for washing hands before communion
toby jug — british ceramic drinking vessel shaped like a seated man, popularized in 1760s england