subs. (old).—1. A prison: also more frequently STONE-JUG (q.v.). For synonyms, see CAGE. Fr. la boite aux cailloux; Sp. tristura. [SKEAT: Fr. joug = a yoke. The Eng. JUG, a cant term for a prison (also called jocosely a STONE-JUG) is the same word.]
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, iii. v.
| And thus was I bowled out at last, | |
| And into the JUG for a lag was cast. |
1835. DICKENS, Sketches by Boz, p. 157. That’s better than the STONE-JUG anyhow; the mill’s a deal better than the Sessions. Ibid. (1837), Oliver Twist, xlii. He shall be kept in the STONE-JUG, Charlie, like a gentleman.
1839. THACKERAY, Catherine, i. We intend to take a few more pages from the Old Bailey Calendar to bless the public with one more draught from the STONE JUG.
1842. Punch, ii., 188. ‘Cut like bricks, and bilk the JUG,’ he cried in one of those speeches which bother the French authors so much when they try to translate our works.
1848. E. Z. C. JUDSON (‘Ned Buntline’), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, x. ‘What is that place?’ … ‘It’s the JUG, sir,’ responded Frank. … ‘The tombs, I meant, sir.’
1857. Punch, 31 Jan., p. 49, ‘Dear Bill, This Stone-jug.’ This STONE JUG at which flats dare to rail.
1870. All the Year Round, 5 March, ‘Bygone Cant.’ ‘In a box of the STONE-JUG I was born,’ aye, and by a tightened jugular I shall die.
1871. Chambers’s Journal, 9 Dec., p. 771. They are no worse than the swells in the City who rob right and left, and never get in the JUG for it.
1884. R. E. FRANCILLON, Ropes of Sand, xxi. I’ve not been under a roof but the JUG’S since somewhere in old Horneds’s time.
1888. BOLDREWOOD, Robbery under Arms, xxii. It was no use sending it to you, old man, while you was in the JUG.
1889. Modern Society, 16 Feb., p. 305. I got three months in the JUG for fortune-telling.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 58, ‘On Law and Order.’ And as for O’Brien and his britches, I’d keep all sech jossers in JUG.
1895. C. WHIBLEY, Thomas Pureney: Prisoner Ordinary, in New Review, May, p. 570. For thirty years his squat, stout figure was amiably familiar to all such as enjoyed the Liberties of the JUG.
2. (American thieves’).—A bank: A BROKEN JUGGED ONE = a note from a broken bank. Hence, also, JUG-BREAKING = burglary at a bank.
1862. Cornhill Magazine, vi. 648. It’s all in single pennifs on the England JUG.
3. (old).—A mistress. Hence (as in quot. 1632) a term of endearment.
1569. PRESTON, Cambyses [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), iv. 183]. Dost think I am a sixpenny JUG?
1600. Grim, the Collier of Croydon, ii. [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. ROWLEY, A Woman Never Vexed, i. 1 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), xii. 115]. Clown. Bring him away, JUG.
1707. CENTLIVRE, The Platonick 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, ‘On Angling.’
| I was ‘on’ like a shot. Bell’s a bloomer, and Jack, though a bit of a JUG, | |
| Is too long in the purse to let slip; so the game looked all proper and sung. |
Verb. (common).—1. To imprison; to lock up; to ‘run in’; hence to hide.
1848. E. Z. C. JUDSON (‘Ned Buntline’), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, iv. When I was JUGGED the last time, didn’t you bring me all I wanted.
1861. ALBERT SMITH, The London 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 Saturday Journal, 9 Feb. That good-looking limb of the law who went wild … and got himself JUGGED.
1892. A. C. GUNTER, Miss Dividends, vi. Buck Powers told me I’d be JUGGED if I shot at ’em.
2. (common).—To take in; to DO (q.v.).
