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Meanings of mug in English
The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
Synonyms
Examples for "mark"
Examples for "mark"
1
Wars against France, the dominant power in Europe, had left their mark.
2
They managed it, however, drawing the body clear of high water mark.
3
It's understood that today will mark a new record number of deaths.
4
Flee the mark of Cain, and come home... come home... come home.
5
The deal would mark its second so-called securitisation deal in 18 months.
1
This government tickles that itching palm, though people know it's fool's gold.
2
The wittiest person in the comedy is he that plays the fool.
3
In my fool heart I did; and I do not know yet.
4
But fool I am; for I am in love with another woman.
5
I was a fool to stop the motor; did it without thinking.
1
But you still needed a patsy, and that's where I came in.
2
Nobody takes our Rachel for any sort of patsy to the patriarchy.
3
Warden Morgan wasn't the only one being set up as a patsy.
4
Our Emma didn't earn her reputation in Denver by being anybody's patsy.
5
Woller's making you the patsy for this, and you know that, too.
1
Having secured the sucker, the blacks farm it in their haphazard fashion.
2
I'd be a sucker, the biggest sucker in the Gar-hole, Chickie bird.
3
The goat sucker makes darts through the air and calls down rain.
4
Then it is easily seen that it swims with the sucker uppermost.
5
The sucker looked at them and declared that he believed they were.
1
In time the gull will flap its wings; the airplane never does.
2
The other offers no trouble, however; it is busy with the gull.
3
I don't like the sound of this sea gull business at all.
4
But the falcons gave battle to the gull and drove him thence.
5
It rests on the edge of the water, like a grey gull.
1
That smirk said Nick was a chump, a wuss, a regular fucktard.
2
I'm no chump; I know a good thing when I see it.
3
People like me would always be chump change to people like her.
4
Only got one Failure to Appear yesterday, and it's strictly chump change.
5
How about chump chops? said the phrasemonger with an air of inspiration.
1
The two 'brothers' know just who to use as their fall guy.
2
Also read: Irrelevant Currie Cup is the fall guy in convoluted season
3
In that sense, as well as others, Sagan is the fall guy.
4
It is likely Matt Doherty didn't mean to be the fall guy.
5
It'd been improvised, essentially, bringing in Duncan's client as the fall guy.
1
The hobby of the next master was slow motions with soft touch.
2
Pfff.' In strolls Cat and immediately recognizes Suga as a soft touch.
3
Can't have people thinking I'm a soft touch, I hope you understand.'
4
Now he could hear the feather- soft touch of insect feet against stone.
5
Then, in his extremity, he felt a soft touch upon his arm.
Usage of mug in English
1
Timing the stock market is mug's game, as Maurice Pratt might say.
2
A few minutes later Patricia handed me a mug of hot chocolate.
3
The city police are putting their own list of mug shots together.
4
I stared into my mug, rethinking my decision to delay going home.
5
Yet she remains bitter about the public posting of her mug shot.
6
Trying to guess who won a presidential debate is a mug's game.
7
I accepted the mug and just stared at him for a moment.
8
It was a mug shot, taken years before the horror in Montreal.
9
I set my mug down hard enough to rattle the small table.
10
Clear lets Dombkowski tab through every mug shot, every alias, every scar.
11
I use a mug most of the time, she answered his grin.
12
He drew out the cider-mug from the ashes and they drank together.
13
Vincent filled the little tin mug, and handed it to the officer.
14
Except maybe for talkin' about Harold Cross. He set his mug down.
15
Tickets: All tickets include a branded beer mug with a festival brochure.
16
I looked down at my coffee mug; steam was rising from it.
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Mug across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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