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stone jug
(Also with hyphen.)
1. A jug made of stoneware.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Ind. ii. 90 Yet would you..raile vpon the Hostesse of the house,..Because she brought stone⁓Iugs, and no seal'd quarts. 1906Westm. Gaz. 22 June 8/2 The Apollinaris Co...now bottles the water in stone jugs.
2. slang. A nickname for Newgate prison, or for a prison in general.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3), Stone jug; Newgate, or any other prison. 1838Dickens O. Twist xliii, He shall be kept in the Stone Jug, Charley, like a gentleman.
3. Rhyming slang. = mug n.5 Cf. steamer 11.
1923J. Manchon Le Slang 296. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xiv. 128 When the Duke of Edinburgh visited one of the Astley collieries in the 1950s, he so satisfied the miners..that one of them was moved to say to the local press, ‘He's no stone jug, you mon.’ This was the highest possible praise from a South Lancashire miner. |