Jug-bitten, subs. (old).—Drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.
1630. Taylor, Works. For when any of them are wounded, pot-shot,
jugbitten, or cup-shaken, so that they have lost all reasonable
faculties of the minde, and in a manner are so mad, that they dare
speake felony, whistle treason, and call any magnifico a mungrell.
Jug-full. Not by a jug full, phr. (common).—Not by a good deal, by long
chalks, by no means.
1834. Downing, Mayday in New-York (quoted by Bartlett.)
Downingville is as sweet as a rose. But ’tain’t so in New-York, not
by a jug-full.
1838–40. Haliburton (‘Sam Slick’), Clockmaker, 3 S., ch. xviii. The
last mile, he said, tho’ the shortest one of the whole bilin’, took
the longest [time] to do it by a jug full.
Juggins (or jug), subs. (common).—A fool. For synonyms see Buffle and
Cabbage-head.
1886. Punch, 17 July, p. 25. Yah! Wot a old juggins he is!
1888. Runciman, The Chequers, 116. Only a juggins or a horse ever
works, and I don’t intend to do any.
1888. Sporting Life, 29 Dec. The jugginses who pull down but never
build up are clamouring just a little bit for the abolition of
Christmas.
1890. Globe, 15 Feb., p. 2, col. 1. Among the witnesses called to
speak to the character of the prisoner was the Marquis of
Ailesbury, who said he did not think Benzon would do any wrong
intentionally, but he was a regular jubilee juggins.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 5. Darned Sosherlist jugginses
’owl till all’s blue agin Wealth.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xii. He was a juggins though he could
write songs.
Juggler’s-box, subs. (Old Cant).—The branding-iron.
Juice, subs. (venery).—Spendings, (q.v.). To give juice for jelly = to
achieve the sexual spasm.
To stew in one’s own juice (or Grease).—See Stew.
Juicy, adj. (common).—1. Piquant; racy; bawdy.
1880. Greenwood, Odd People, p. 59. ‘Let me play you a tune, then,’
said the frightened lad. ‘All right, then. Play us something
juicy,’ exclaimed the ruffian.