toby jug


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
toby jug/ˈtəʊbi/
noun chiefly Brit. a beer jug or mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
– origin C19: familiar form of the given name Tobias, and said to come from an 18th-cent. poem about Toby Philpot (with a pun on fill pot), a soldier who liked to drink.
'toby jug' also found in these Oxford entries:

Forum discussions with the word(s) "toby jug" in the title:


Look up "toby jug" at Merriam-Webster
Look up "toby jug" at dictionary.com

In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic

Download free Android and iPhone apps

Android AppiPhone App
Report an inappropriate ad.