coffee mug
- noun
- /ˈkɔːfi mʌɡ/
- I enjoy sipping my hot coffee from my favorite coffee mug every morning.
- get a coffee mug
- fill a coffee mug
- coffee mug in hand
Your phone, your badge, your wallet, your coffee mug, all of it.
- Your phone, your badge, your wallet, your coffee mug, all of it.
- You're saying that these details matter just as much as the, the coffee mug itself.
- Our next item is guys, I collect coffee mugs.
- Whoever wakes up first can like write the other one a cute little note on their coffee mug and like, leave it for them.
- If I don't bid on this car right now, on this T-shirt right now, on this dress right now, I really want those coffee mugs that I saw on eBay.
- What I did was I filled up my my brand new Ember coffee mug and I walked down the stairs and I clicked on a link and boom, brave new world.
- That is specific and I like that in my specific morning coffee mug.
- For me it's coffee mugs and stickers and maybe cats.
Examples
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President Hayes leaned forward and placed his coffee mug on the table.
Fiction book (2001) -
Have you seen my coffee mug?
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One more time, you get the free coffee mug.
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You want a coffee mug?
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Here are the coffee mugs.
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It's for your coffee mug.
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I put them in the coffee mug cabinet.
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Fred had given her the coffee mug, from which the steam had long since stopped rising.
Fiction book (1995) -
After the reading, we presented the guest with a school coffee mug as a token of our gratitude.
Academic text (1997) -
Walter smiled when he saw it and looked down at his coffee mug.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
A small open container with a handle for drinking liquids
A large cup with a handle for drinking hot drinks
A small cup with a handle used for drinking coffee
A cup that keeps drinks hot or cold and has a lid for carrying
A container like a cup or mug for holding liquids to drink
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward modifier + head construction where 'coffee' restricts the kind of 'mug' — i.e., a mug for coffee. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and fully derivable from the known meanings of the constituents, so a B1 learner who knows 'coffee' and 'mug' will understand it.
Etymology
Coffee mug simply names the drink and the cup: coffee and mug. A mug is a large, sturdy cup with a handle used for hot drinks, so coffee mug came to mean 'a large cup with a handle, designed for serving and drinking coffee'.