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52 words match “MUG”

MUG n. 2 definitions
A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
MUGGARD a.
Sullen; displeased. [Obs.]
MUGGER; MUGGAR; MUGGUR n.
The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
MUGGET n.
The small entrails of a calf or a hog.
MUGGINESS n.
The condition or quality of being muggy.
MUGGINS v. 3 definitions
, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."
MUGGISH a.
See Muggy.
MUGGLETONIAN n.
One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie.
MUGGY a. 2 definitions
Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
MUGHOUSE n.
An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.
MUGIENCY n.
A bellowing. [Obs.]
MUGIENT a.
Lowing; bellowing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
MUGIL n.
A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.
MUGILOID a.
Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidæ.
MUGWEED n.
A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); -- called also crossweed.
MUGWORT n.
A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
MUGWUMP n.
A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]
MUGWUMPERY; MUGWUMPISM n.
The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.]
ALMUG; ALGUM n.
A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
HUGGER-MUGGER n. 3 definitions
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.
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