ˈmug-house
[f. mug n.1 + house.]
1. An ale-house, beer-house. ? Obs. or arch. Also attrib. in mug-house club, the designation of certain political clubs (of Hanoverian sympathies) which met at ‘mug-houses’ early in the 18th c.; so mug-house chief.
| 1685 Choice Collect. 180 Loyal Songs (ed. 3) 322 The Mug-house. 1710 Steele Tatler No. 180 ¶3 There is a Mug-house near Long-Acre, where [etc.]. 1717 Tickell Epist. fr. Lady to Gent. at Avignon 73 Our sex has dar'd the Mugg-House Chiefs to meet. 1753 H. Walpole Let. to Bentley Sept., Every ale-house is here [Birmingham] written mug-house, a name one has not heard of since the riots in the late King's time. 1827 Hone Table Bk. I. 378 At the mug-house club in Long-acre [temp. Geo. I]. 1891 Baring-Gould Urith xv, When a young gallant begins to squabble at village mug-houses. |
2. dial. A pottery.
| 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiq. 511. |