{"id":86342,"date":"2025-06-18T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/how-and-when-did-jug-come-to-be-a-slang-term-for-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:49:26","slug":"how-and-when-did-jug-come-to-be-a-slang-term-for-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/how-and-when-did-jug-come-to-be-a-slang-term-for-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"How and when did “jug” come to be a slang term for “prison”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.”<\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}