mugとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Early 16th century (originally Scots かつ northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (compare Swedish mugg (“mug, jug”), Norwegian mugge (“pitcher, open can for warm drinks”), Danish mugge), or Low German mokke, mukke (“mug”), German Low German Muck (“drinking cup”), Dutch mok (“mug”), also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”) and 古期英語 muga (“stack”).^[1] Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

"Face" sense possibly from grotesque faces on certain drinking vessels. "Assault" sense of verb possibly from hitting someone in the face.

形容詞

mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

1. (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?"

名詞

mug (複数形 mugs)

1. A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
   

   A mug
3. (slang, often derogatory) The face.

   What an ugly mug.

4. (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.

   He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.

5. (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
6. A criminal.

同意語

• (face): mush, dial, phiz
• (gullible person): See Thesaurus:dupe

派生語

(face):

• mug book
• mug shot

(gullible person):

• mug’s game

派生した語

• → Finnish: muki
• → Swedish: mugg
• → Welsh: mẁg, mỳg

参考

• cup
• pannikin

動詞

mug (三人称単数 現在形 mugs, 現在分詞 mugging, 過去形および過去分詞形 mugged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, UK) 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."

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.^[2]
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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.

5. (UK, Australia, Singapore, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

派生語

• mug off
• mug up
• mugger
• muggee

参照

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “mug”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• mug at OneLook Dictionary Search

語源 2

Informal variant of motherfucker.

名詞

mug (複数形 mugs)

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" または "as a mug")

アナグラム

• GUM, Gum, MGU, gum