Partridge was original and brilliant, especially in his treatment of underworld and military slang. His attitude towards language was scholarly and fun-loving, scientific and idiosyncratic. His body of work, scholarship and dignity of approach led the way and set the standard for every other English-language slang lexicographer of the twentieth century. | Judy Julian Clary 374 Judy adjective locked in on a target us 1990 jug noun 1 a jailor prison us 1816. 2 a bank us 1848. 3 a glass of beer No longer common. Only used colloquially and not when ordering beer at a hotelwhere a jug is precisely that a jug of beer that you take back to a table and fill glasses from Australia 1960. 4 a large table jug for beer Australia 1990. 5 a glass ampoule holding liquid drugs us 1971. 6 a smallcontainer of amphetamine or methamphetamine in liquid form us 1980. 7 a cylinder in an aeroplane engine us 1963. 8 a carburettor us 1942. 9 in electric line work a horizontal post insulator us 1980 jug verb 1 to arrest or imprison us 1841. 2 to attack someone with a jug of boiling water especially sugared water uk 1996. 3 to have sex with us 1965. 4 to stab us 1970 8see JUKE jug and pail noun a prison or jail. A rhyming slang elaboration of jug a prison uk 1992 juge verb 1 to have sex us 1967. 2 to stab us 2000 jugged adjective 1 drunk. Noted as being used by office- and shopgirls us 1923. 2 imprisoned uk 1996 jugging noun in prison an attack with a jug of boiling sugared water uk 2000 juggins noun a dolt uk 1882 juggle verb 1 to sell drugs us 1969. 2 to engage in criminalbusiness activities uk 1994 juggler noun 1 a retail-leveldrug dealer us 1969. 2 a member of a train crew who loads and unloads freight at stops on a run us 1946 jughandle noun in caving and pot-holing a handle-shaped outcrop of rock used as an anchor-point uk 2004 jughandles juglugs noun prominent ears uk 1969 jug heavy noun acriminalwho specialises in robbing bank vaults and safes us 1949 jughustler noun 1 in oil drilling a cable-car crew member with a geophone Canada 1958. 2 in oil drilling the most inexperienced member of a seismic crew. The recording devices carried by the crew resembled and were called jugs us 1954 jug it save your prattle for someone who cares us 1951 jugs milk jugs noun the female breasts. A reference to the source of mother s milk widely known and .
