mug
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
- 2.
(derogatory, often, slang)(slang, often derogatory) The face.
Đồng nghĩa: mush, dial, phiz
- 3.
(derogatory, slang)A gullible or easily cheated person.
He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.
Đồng nghĩa: chump, chumpion, cousin, cull, cully, dupe, dotterel, easy mark, fall guy, fish, gudgeon, gull, juggins, live one, mark, mug, muggins, pigeon, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sheep, simp, Simple Simon, soft touch, steamer, stiff, stooge, sucker
- 4.
(Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, derogatory, slang)A stupid or contemptible person.
- 5.
(slang)A criminal.
- 6.
(slang)A mug shot.
Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.
- 7.
(slang)(slang, African-American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")
Động từ
verb- 1.
(Ireland, UK, obsolete, transitive)To strike in the face.
1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
- 2.
(transitive)To assault for the purpose of robbery.
- 3.
(intransitive)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.
The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.
- 4.
(transitive)To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.
Perhaps if I told you that there were forty arrests made in one day here, you will realize that with this small equipment available in the Sheriff's Office, it is very difficult to get mugs. These people are being mugged as they are being arrested but with an entirely inadequate force at work prints have not as yet been made.
- 5.
(Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, slang)To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(archaic)Easily fooled, gullible.
- 2.
(slang)(Bermuda, slang) Uninteresting or unpleasant.
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Early 16th century (originally - and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from - (compare mugg, mugge, mugge), or mug, Muck drinking cup, mok, also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to muga and múgr. Compare also mug, mog (a measure of salt).