# jug

> English word · Noun · IPA /d͡ʒʌɡ/ · frequency rank #19,628

## Definitions
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. Jail.
4. A woman's breasts.
5. An upright electric kettle.
6. A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
7. The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
8. A hold large enough for both hands
9. A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.

## Etymology
From Middle English jugge, 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 ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.

## Easily confused with
- **JV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jv)
- **JW** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jw)
- **jun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jun)
- **jus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jus)
- **just** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-just)
- **June** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-june)
- **July** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-july)
- **jump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jump)
- **jury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jury)
- **junk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-junk)
- **Jung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jung)
- **Juno** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-juno)
- **juju** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-juju)
- **juve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-juve)
- **jugs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jugs)
- **juke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-juke)
- **jute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jute)
- **Jura** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jug-vs-jura)
- **j** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/j-vs-jug)
- **Jr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jr-vs-jug)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/jug