Also 7 jugg. [app. an altered by-form of JOUK v.1 (juke, joke, etc.) with specialized application; cf. also JUCK v., used of the call of partridges when they jouk or jug.] intr. Of partridges, etc.: To crowd or nestle together on the ground; to collect in a covey. Also transf. Hence Jugging vbl. sb.
c. 1600. Drayton, Miseries Q. Margaret, cxlvi. Like as you see when partridges are flown,… They in the evening get together all, With pretty jugging, and each other greet.
1654. Vilvain, Theol. Treat., iii. 106. Jugging together like Partridges in smal Covies.
1660. Hexham, Roesten, to Jugge, or goe to Roest, as Hens, Partridges.
1672. [see JOUK v.1 1].
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Jug, to squat, and nestle close together, as partridges at night.
1878. Daily News, 12 Sept., 3/1. At night partridges roost and nestle close together on the ground in a cluster…. When … thus resting they are said to jug.
b. trans. To collect close together.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 292. Some have taken [liberty] in these times, to separate themselves from the ordinary Ministry of this Church, and by a mutuall call of one an other to jugg themselves, like Partridges, into small coveys.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., To Rdr. Should they [kinreds of men] have liv’d and jugg’d together to this day.
