What does ugly mug mean

Spanish Spain. Question about English US. What does "mug" I dont want to see your ugly mug mean? See a translation.

I already know that mug means "to rob someone" and "a cup" but I don't know this one and I would like to know if people use it. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified.

Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer. Read more comments. English US Dutch. Urban Thesaurus crawls the web and collects millions of different slang terms, many of which come from UD and turn out to be really terrible and insensitive this is the nature of urban slang, I suppose.

Hopefully the related words and synonyms for " term " are a little tamer than average. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.

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The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. It most likely derives from "mugg," a Scandinavian word for a drinking vessel. In the 17th and 18th centuries, mugs were often decorated with cartoonishly-drawn human faces.

This may have led to the use of "mug" as a synonym for an ugly face. Although a bit archaic, "mug" is still used to describe a less-than-beautiful face. Keith Richards left and Brad Pitt right. Can you tell the difference? Another theory is that "mug" comes from "mukha," the Sanskit word for face.

They have yet to determine, however, whether Sanskit is ever spoken with a Brookyn accent. The term "mug shot," referring to a photo taken of a prisoner or someone in police custody in a jail or prison, is thought to haves derived from the "grimace" definition cited earlier.

A person in police custody would after "mug," or grimace in order to change the shape or features of his face. This was done to make him less easily identifiable. One last "mug" usage is, of course, the noun often called a "mugging" or verb, the act or action of assaulting someone, almost always to rob them of money.