What are 'jugs'?

Subject: What are 'jugs'?
From: breezy
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:11 PM

well?

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: concertina ceol
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:17 PM

recepticles that hold fluid - such as milk - usually found in a matching pair

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:23 PM

Or little brown jugs full of moonshine.

~S~

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:25 PM

Flagons, large bottles, possibly stoneware, ideal for blowing.
Robyn

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:27 PM

BLACK SABBATH lyrics - "Blow On A Jug"

Blow on a Jug
Everybody come on - blow on a jug
Be like me and blow on a jug
I want you to blow on a jug
Everybody begin - blow on a jug

If that's the sort of jugs you are talking about, then you are in reference to a bit of crockery that might have had an ever-diminishing amount of whiskey in it. Blowing in it just right produces a pleasant, rythmic bass line accompaniment to bouncy bluegrass, country, or "jug band" music.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: treewind
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:30 PM

Take your pick: jug

A.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:31 PM

BTW, the pitch can be adjusted by "adjusting" the amount of liquid in it or, to some degree, by overblowing. The latter is a way of producing more than one note from a single jug.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST,Janine
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 02:44 PM

Ears

Janine

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 03:20 PM

Not sure about that, Janine - I know of sticky-out ears (like Prince Charles') being referred to as "jug ears", but that's all

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST,Janine
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 03:24 PM

I thought it was lugs = jugs, El Greko, but maybe I'm wrong there.

Janine

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 03:43 PM

The Jug was a type of airplane, the P-47 Thunderbolt, WWII's heaviest single-seat fighter plane. The British or someone had informally named it the "Juggernaught", which the pilots then shortened to just "Jug". These planes served with great distinction from '43 through '45, and caused severe headaches to the Axis. It's not exactly a beautiful looking plane, but it is impressive looking. Very powerful and heavily armed. Comes in earlier fastback version, and later bubble canopy. Many of these Jugs served after the war in various air forces of smaller countries, specially in South America.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 03:46 PM

And I could be wrong too, Janine. The beauty of language is in its variability.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 04:15 PM

Can also refer to ladies' bosooms - though I've no idea where the term comes from, when applied! "By 'eck lass, them's big jugs!" was an oft heard phrase on last bus out of Hartlepool bus station!

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 04:34 PM

By coincidence, I just finished reading the lyrics of The Rabbit Trapper's Song, where the last three lines are,

"There's a shy and dinkum girlie
Lets me juggle with the cream cans
As she writes cheques out for me."

Cream cans = cream jugs, in a matching pair, as concertina ceol said.

Rude but colorful expression....

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 05:21 PM

Beer glasses with handles.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 06:42 PM

Ask a jug band?

Kitty

PS I once tried sending an e-mail to a schoolteacher friend with the title "Back in the jug agane" (after Molesworth) and apparently it was suppressed because of the inclusion of a rude word ("jug").

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 06:47 PM

I remember the movie "Mother, Jugs and Speed"

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 09:34 PM

In petroleum exploration by seismicity, recording devices set at intervals along a line to a central receiver, measuring intensity of the return at points along the line from a shock wave causated by detonation of an explosive device.

'Jug' often used for jail in N. Am.
Cartoonists often draw the G. W. with jug ears...

See the thread on 'jars' as in "lets drink a jar or two.' I put a link there to a museum photo of a jar- which was a small liquor jug, abong other things. Both words have many meanings.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 08:39 AM

concertina ceol was having a lend of you...

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 08:41 AM

Tits.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 08:51 AM

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 09:58 AM

Also, the sound a Nightingale makes.

In case anyone cares, jug probably comes from the name Jug, a diminutive of Judy, Joan and Jenny, First noted in the 16th Century.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 10:14 AM

Foolestroupe...I seem to remember that film..was it Peter Fonda?

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 10:54 AM

Jail. Gone to the jug.

~S~

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Gervase
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 11:00 AM

They're what ou keep your ewes in at lambing time. Any fule no that!

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 11:08 AM

Beer glasses with handles - aren't they mugs?

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: bobad
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 11:19 AM

Then there is also:

JUGGED HARE n. 1. Rabbit preserved in some sort of blood sauce or pudding.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 11:44 AM

Jugged Hare is Hare stew or hotpot.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 12:38 PM

A plural noun.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: bbc
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 03:45 PM

context for your question would surely help, if you are actually seeking a meaningful answer.

bbc

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: bobad
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 04:27 PM

Hey Peace

If the answer you gave is correct shouldn't the question read "What is jugs?" Grammatically challenged, inquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 04:33 PM

Another names given to the type of jugs we speak of are as follows
BRISTOL CITIES.
LAMPS.
HEADLIGHTS.
KNOCKERS.
RACK.
WHOPPERS.
Can you add to this ???????????????????????

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Peace
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 06:34 PM

That then becomes a question for the thread originator.

What is jugs?
What are jugs?
What is groples?
What are groples?

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 09:49 PM

Georgiansilver,
if he was in the movie. he probably was Mother, certainly not Jugs...

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 06:01 AM

ROFLOL

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: John J
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 03:21 PM

Lungs, typically "she's got a huge pair of lungs".

JJ

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Zorg
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 03:45 PM

Bloody great, thank God handholds for rock climdbers

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: The Walrus
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:13 AM

"Jugs":- A term used for citizens of Yugoslavia (whan such a place existed), derived from the 'local' spelling (on stamps etc.)

Btw. In "Mother, Jugs and Speed", wasn't Racquel Welch (sp?) "Jugs"?

W

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:35 AM

Who else could fill her, er, um, shoes?

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:52 AM

Gazonkas, bloody big gazonkas

Subject: RE: What are 'jugs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 09:52 AM

Her nickname around our way was 'Galaxy'......So full of milk, it almost moos. Good old days eh?