mugwareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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mugware (uncountable)

1. Mugs collectively.
   • 1902 January 31, “Elks’ Comedy of Commerce”, in The Omaha Evening Bee, page 7:

     There is a country store with the genuine “general line of groceries, coffins, nails, spices, hardware, footwear, tinware, mugware, chinaware, beware and mullen cheroots.”

   • 1953, Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 171:

     Then douse flames with 1 quart boiling water, stir and serve pronto in glass or silver mugware.

   • 1962 May 2, Lincoln Evening Journal, 95th year, number 104, Lincoln, Neb., page 5:

     HOUSE ’N PATIO MUGWARE!

   • 1973 June 8, The Austin Statesman, volume 102, number 224, Austin, Tex., page 10:

     On June 17th, His special day, cheer him with a unique gift of mugware in robust scenes & colors.

   • 1987 January 18, David N. Rosenthal, “America’s Cup competition needs Soviet presence”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, page C-13:

     If they do that four times, then I am expected to get really excited when the rich guys with zinc oxide on their faces from San Diego beat more rich guys with more zinc oxide on their faces from Australia for some piece of silver mugware with a hole in its bottom that used to be bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, but that now lives in Perth or at “Crocodile” Dundee’s house, I forget which.

   • 1990 November 26, The Daily Illini, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., page 21:

     How to save money on your drinks at the Union, help out the environment, and possess a singularly attractive piece of mugware all in one fell swoop…

   • 2022, Merren Tait, Odd Girl Roar, Lola Publications, →ISBN:

     As Liam sat down and opened his lunch container, I tried to make sense of the words written in thick white font on his black mug. I want to ki_ _ you. Options may vary. If his choice in mugware was deliberate, I wondered what the options on offer were.