Toby Fillpot jug
- noun
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jarra Toby Fillpot
- He drank ale from a Toby Fillpot jug modeled after a merrily smiling man.
Examples
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Collectors often seek out Toby Fillpot jugs because of their unique designs and historical value.
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The antique shop displayed a rare Toby Fillpot jug among its collection of ceramics.
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Look at that Toby Fillpot jug!
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The Toby Fillpot jug sat proudly on the shelf.
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Collectors often seek out Toby Fillpot jugs because of their unique designs and historical value.
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He drank ale from a Toby Fillpot jug modeled after a merrily smiling man.
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The antique shop displayed a rare Toby Fillpot jug among its collection of ceramics.
Synonyms
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A large cup with a handle for drinking hot drinks
A clay mug shaped like a fat man wearing a three-cornered hat
A large mug shaped like a man wearing a three-cornered hat used to serve beer
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'toby' already denotes a specific type of mug shaped like a stout man, and 'jug' clearly marks it as a drinking vessel, so a learner who knows those constituents can infer this is a kind of decorative drinking jug. 'Fillpot' appears to be a proper-name variant and does not block the compositional interpretation. The noun-noun modifier pattern is transparent and commonly interpretable across languages.
Etymology
Toby Fillpot jug may come from an old drinking song about a merry man called Toby Fillpot, and potters began making clay jugs shaped like that stout, smiling man wearing a three-cornered hat. So the name stuck, and today a Toby Fillpot jug means a decorative 'jug' made to look like a man.