Jug

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌɡ/

Definitions

1. A container with a handle and a narrow neck or spout, typically used for holding and pouring liquids
2. A vessel designed with a handle and often a tapered opening, commonly utilized for serving or storing fluids
3. An object featuring a grip and a constricted spout, primarily intended for the transportation or dispensing of liquids

Etymology: The vessel sense of "jug" has an origin that is genuinely unclear. Its Middle English form "jugge" may be a variant of older words such as "jubbe" or "jobbe", whose own origins are unknown, or it may descend in altered form from the Old English "ċēac", meaning "pitcher" or "jug". Nobody has settled the question, so the honest answer is that the word's earliest ancestry is lost. The same spelling has also produced a very different set of meanings. Another English "jug", from "Jug", a familiar form of the name Joanna, was once a slang term for a low-born woman or maidservant. The prison sense, meaning a jail, is attested in Britain from at least 1825, and it is a separate development that connects to neither the container nor the old name. Such overlaps happen when unrelated words share a sound and spelling, and English has accumulated several of them under this one form.

Synonyms: container, pitcher, vessel, carafe, flask

Antonyms: empty, void, absence, lack, deplete