Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: jug
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ʌɡ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: jug
    Meaning: a large bottle with a narrow mouth
Usage examples
  • Jug o' rum!"
  • What is it but a cracked jug?
  • I poured out the water from the jug into the tumbler.
  • He never cries over spilt milk, even if the jug be broken to the bargain.
  • Mr. Micawber, who had been helping us all, out of the wash-hand-stand jug, replied:
  • "That's a fair question," Blount replied, inverting a cocktail jug over his glass to extract the last few drops.
  • Before long he came to a well filled to the brim with water clear as crystal, and on the bosom of which a golden jug was floating.
  • Inspired by his own barbarous melodies and the contents of his jug, he was ready primed to gather fresh laurels from the diffident brow of Quicksand.
  • In the course of these attempts I succeeded in bringing up two case-knives, a three-gallon jug, empty, and a blanket, but nothing which could serve us for food.
  • Going to a bartending machine, von Schlichten dialed the cocktail they had decided upon and inserted his key to charge the drinks to his account, filling a four-portion jug.