An emphatic negation.
1835. Did you ever follow the business of peddling! Not by a jugfull, Mister; I never was one of your wooden nutmeg fellers.—D. P. Thompson, ‘Adventures of Timothy Peacock,’ p. 87.
1843. He [a voter] wants a jugful of being yours, my lad.—Cornelius Mathews, ‘Writings,’ p. 45.
1854. ‘Take medicine,’ said I. ‘Not by a jug-full,’ said Jim.—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 162 (N.Y.).
1855. Not by a jug full, Mr. Souley; Cuba is the most valuable patch of ground we’ve got. Can’t spare it no how.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 429 (1860).
1857. Sell ye by the piece; well, as much as ye want; but no more shelving operations here, not by a jugful, I calculate.—Knick. Mag., xlix. 182 (Feb.).
1857. He wished to state of the pro-slavery men of Kansas, so that their friends in Missouri might see into their plans and policy, they had not abandoned the idea of making Kansas a slave State, by a jugfull.—P. T. Abie’s speech, July. Bartlett.
a. 1880. See Appendix XXIII.
