• enPR: mŭg, IPA: /mʌɡ/

mug (comparative mugger, superlative muggest)

1. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"

mug (plural mugs)

1. A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
2. (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.

   What an ugly mug.

3. (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.

   He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.

4. (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.

• (face) mush, dial, phiz
• (gullible person) See Thesaurus:dupe

• French: chope, mug (rarely)
• German: Becher
• Italian: boccale, gotto
• Portuguese: caneca
• Russian: кру́жка
• Spanish: taza, jarro

• French: gueule, tronche, trogne, poire
• German: Gesicht, Visage
• Italian: muso
• Portuguese: cara
• Russian: ро́жа
• Spanish: jeta

• French: couillon, gogo, poire, pigeon
• German: Idiot
• Italian: gonzo, babbeo, credulone, idiota
• Portuguese: (colloquial) trouxa
• Russian: лох
• Spanish: idiota, tonto del culo

mug (mugs, present participle mugging; past and past participle mugged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, UK) To strike in the face.
   • 1821, The Fancy, i. p.261:

     Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.

   • 1857, "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue

     And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,

   • 1866, London Miscellany, 5 May, p.102:

     "Suppose they had Mugged you?" / "Done what to me?" / "Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."

2. (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
3. (intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.

   The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.

4. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

5. (UK, Australia, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

• French: agresser
• German: ausrauben
• Italian: scippare, borseggiare
• Portuguese: assaltar
• Spanish: atracar

• French: faire des simagrées

mug (plural mugs)

1. (slang, AAVE) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")