Etymology of Bank Jugging - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Just today I saw this referred to as "bank jugging" I can not find an etymology of why they use the word "jugging" It rhymes with "mugging" but that just leads me to ask what is the etymology of "mugging" Here are links to it being used in news stories:
How and when did jug come to be a slang term for prison? The OED's first instance of jug meaning a prison occurs under "Stone-Jug" where, in 1796, in Grose's Dictionary Vulgar T, "Stone-Jug" refers to "Newgate, or any other prison " Under "jug" itself, the OED cites an 1861 poem in which the narrator was sentenced to "ten years in the Jug "
Where exactly did the slang phrase digging it come from From EtymOnline: In 19c U S student slang it meant "study hard, give much time to study" (1827); the 20c slang sense of "understand" is recorded by 1934 in African-American vernacular
meaning - What exactly does it mean to mug somebody off in British . . . It may not have any well-defined meaning as a phrase (I'm British, and I've never heard it) "Mug" has a variety of uses, so a sentence like that is probably not an idiom at all You should bear in mind that a film may go to some lengths to accentuate (or even make up) "cockney-isms" — don't mistake movie Cockney for British English, they are
grammar - Understanding as of, as at, and as from - English . . . It is certainly an answer There are three conflicting meanings in play, licensed by certain dictionaries 'As of' is ill-defined Any answer claiming that only one meaning is licensed is incorrect You mean 'I don't like this answer ' –
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring? In fact it has made itself into its own meaning - it no longer needs explanation and is generally accepted world wide as a representation of sleeping The reason it even became what it now is, is almost lost, such as the meaning of the wrong end of the stick I’ll let you figure that one out