Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The amount a jug holds.

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  • noun as much as a jug will hold

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  • noun the quantity contained in a jug

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Examples

  • Elliott and his classmates really enjoyed slicing up the lemons and measuring out just the right amount of sugar for each jugful.

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • Elliott and his classmates really enjoyed slicing up the lemons and measuring out just the right amount of sugar for each jugful.

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • Above and below: Crab Nabe; a soup made with seafood stock (which I could drink by the jugful), more crab legs (incredible to say, but we were seriously crabbed out by the end of this meal), silken tofu, wombok (Asian cabbage), onions and enoki mushrooms - which are really cheap here compared to Australia.

    New Year's Eve Crab FEAST Niki 2006

  • All he had to do was to make sure he mixed Art a jugful of extra-strong whiskey sour.

    The Christmas Bride Jordan, Penny 2006

  • Above and below: Crab Nabe; a soup made with seafood stock (which I could drink by the jugful), more crab legs (incredible to say, but we were seriously crabbed out by the end of this meal), silken tofu, wombok (Asian cabbage), onions and enoki mushrooms - which are really cheap here compared to Australia.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Niki 2006

  • He administered a stronger distillation of the herbs, and between them they forced Khyan to drink another jugful of well water.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • He now brought out with it a large jugful of the foaming milk and filled her little bowl over and over again.

    Heidi 2000

  • He just ladled us out our usual jugful and kept sniffing and muttering 'God dammit'.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • The boys awoke then, and went to the spring to splash their faces and bring back a jugful of water to drink.

    Five Go To Mystery Moor Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1954

  • And Thoma, with his blackened eye, went on measuring out without stint, to every one who presented himself, a huge jugful.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

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