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toby jug

British

noun

Also called: toby. a beer mug or jug typically in the form of a stout seated man wearing a three-cornered hat and smoking a pipe

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Etymology

Origin of toby jug

C19: from the familiar form of the Christian name Tobias

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We may also compare toby jug and demi-john.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

Then when he found the bank-notes and the Buddha and the toby jug with the unnumbered clippings belonging to them, he got almost as excited as I was.

From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

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