different between jug vs crock

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?g, IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English jugge, iugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ??ac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna.

Noun

jug (countable and uncountable, plural jugs)

1. A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
2. The amount that a jug can hold.
3. (slang) Jail.
   • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda

     'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'

   • 1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957 (page 19)

     I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]

4. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
5. (New Zealand) A kettle.
6. (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
   • 2001, 73 Amateur Radio Today (issues 482-493, page 8)

     […] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.

7. (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• jug on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

1. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

   jugged hare

2. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
3. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
4. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of Jack Russell +? pug

Noun

jug (plural jugs)

1. A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
   • 2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group:

     When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.

   • 2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited
   • 2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business
   • 2018, Cheryl Murphy, Dogs just wanna have FUN!, Veloce Publishing, page 110:

     Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *jùg? (“south (wind)”) (cf. South Slavic Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian jug (“south”)).

Noun

jug m (indefinite plural -, definite singular jugu, definite plural -)

1. south

Declension

Antonyms

• veri

Derived terms

• jugor

See also

• lindje
• perëndim
• jugë

References

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin jugum, iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

jug n (plural juguri)

1. yoke

Declension

Related terms

• înjuga
• jugar
• jugastru
• dejuga

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jug?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jû?/

Noun

j?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. south

Declension

Antonyms

• (south): s?ver / sj?ver

Related terms

• Jugoslavija
• južni

Descendants

• ? Albanian: jug

See also

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jug?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jú?k/, /júk/

Noun

j?g or j?g m inan

1. south

Inflection

Derived terms

• Jugoslávija
• júžen
• júžina

Further reading

• “jug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: croc

Etymology 1

From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukk?, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“vessel”). The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English cr?g, cr?h (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,

     Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.

2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. (Britain) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
   • 1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,

     He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.

   • 1932, Helen Simpson, Boomerang, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,

     He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can?t ask a girl to marry a crock.”

   • 2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker):

     Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?"
     Man: "According to my doctor, no."
     Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."

4. (Britain) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).

5. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

6. A low stool.
   • 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,

     I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.

7. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

Synonyms

• (vehicle): banger

Translations

Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. To break something or injure someone.
   • 1904, P.G. Wodehouse, The Gold Bat [2]:

     "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."

   • 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror:

     Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel

   • 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times:

     Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.

2. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
   • 1917, John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [3], US Patent 1371572, page 1:

     thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.

   • 1964, Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [4], page 109:

     Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).

   • 2002, Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [5], ?ISBN, page 95:

     In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.

3. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
   • 1900, H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [6], page 21:

     The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...

4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).

Noun

crock (uncountable)

1. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
2. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

References

Further reading

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[7] (etymology)

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kr?k], [krok]

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. an old ewe which has ceased bearing
2. crock (large earthenware vessel for holding milk, cream, salt, butter, etc.)

Derived terms

• crockanition (“complete destruction, fragments”)
• crockums (“refuse of fish livers after the oil has been extracted”)