1569. T. Preston, Cambyses. Dost thou think I am a sixpenny jug?
b. 1600. Grim the Collier [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 409].
The collier chooseth well; ... Jug shall be his. [Aside]. But
hear’st thou, Grim, I have that in my head, To plot that how thou
shall the maiden wed.
1632. W. Rowley, Woman Never Vext, i. 1. Bring him away, Jug.
1707. Centlivre, Platonic Lady. Haste ye! don’t you marry that ill
tempered jug.
4. (old).—A term of contempt applied indifferently to both the sexes:
see juggins.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, 63. Bell’s a bloomer, and, Jack
thought, a bit of a jug.
Verb. (common).—1. To imprison; to lock up; to ‘run in’; hence to hide.
1852. Judson, Mysteries of New-York, iv. When I was jugged the last
time, didn’t you bring me all I wanted.
1861. Albert Smith, Medical Student, p. 33. Poor Jones got jugg’d
by mistake, but eventually got off the next morning with a
five-shilling fine.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. The police came in and jugged
him.
1888. Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, xxx. Jim and I will be
jugged.
1889. Cassell’s Sat. Jour., 9 Feb. That good-looking limb of the
law who went wild ... and got himself jugged.
1892. Gunter, Miss Dividends, vi. Buck Powers told me I’d be jugged
if I shot at ’em.