Dictionary Entry
jug
jug is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
- 2noun
A pitcher; a ewer.
- 3noun
A prison; a jail; a lockup.
- 4transitive verb
To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
- 5transitive verb
To commit to jail; to imprison.
- 6intransitive verb
To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- 7intransitive verb
To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
- 8noun
a large bottle with a narrow mouth
- 9noun
the quantity contained in a jug
Synonyms
- 10verb
stew in an earthenware jug
"jug the rabbit"
- 11verb
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
"The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
"the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
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