ADJ
measuring | china, earthenware, enamel, enamelled, glass, plastic | cream, milk, water, wine
VERB + JUG
fill, pour sth into
She poured hot water into the jug to make tea.
pour, tip
He tipped the jug to fill everyone's glass with fresh orange juice.
empty, pour sth from/out of
PREP
~ of
She poured a jug of orange juice for everyone at the breakfast table.
noun
A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
The amount that a jug can hold.
Jail.
'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'
I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]
A woman's breasts.
I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."
With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.
An upright electric kettle.
verb
To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
jugged hare
To put into jail.
To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.
To nestle or collect together in a covey.
noun
A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.
2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited
noun — the quantity contained in a jug
verb — lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head.
2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy. Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears
To cease drinking alcohol; to become teetotal.
Even though something can be used well at the moment, it will eventually break down as everything does.
“The jug goes to the well until it breaks” – this may not be so terrible involving a jug – translated to the failure of a scaffolding assembly, it may, however, involve loss of lif
'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'
WiktionaryI was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him i
WiktionaryI was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."
Wiktionaryjugged hare
WiktionaryDown in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.
WiktionaryWhen the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decide
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, jug is marked as slang, vulgar, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.