The difference between Mug and Sucker

When used as nouns, mug means a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer, whereas sucker means a person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder.

When used as verbs, mug means to strike in the face, whereas sucker means to strip the suckers or shoots from.


Mug is also adjective with the meaning: easily fooled, gullible.

check bellow for the other definitions of Mug and Sucker

  1. Mug as an adjective (archaic):

    Easily fooled, gullible.

  1. Mug as a noun:

    A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

  2. Mug as a noun (slang):

    The face, often used deprecatingly.

    Examples:

    "What an ugly mug."

  3. Mug as a noun (slang, vulgar):

    A gullible or easily-cheated person.

    Examples:

    "He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again."

  4. Mug as a noun (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang):

    A stupid or contemptible person.

  1. Mug as a verb (transitive, obsolete, UK):

    To strike in the face.

  2. Mug as a verb (transitive):

    To assault for the purpose of robbery.

  3. Mug as a verb (intransitive):

    To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.

    Examples:

    "The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera."

  4. Mug as a verb (transitive):

    To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.

  5. Mug as a verb (UK, Australia, slang):

    To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.

  1. Mug as a noun (slang, AAVE):

    Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

  1. Sucker as a noun:

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

  2. Sucker as a noun (horticulture):

    An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

  3. Sucker as a noun:

    A parasite; a sponger.

  4. Sucker as a noun:

    An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

  5. Sucker as a noun:

    A thing that works by sucking something.

  6. Sucker as a noun:

    The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

  7. Sucker as a noun:

    A pipe through which anything is drawn.

  8. Sucker as a noun:

    A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

  9. Sucker as a noun (British, colloquial):

    A suction cup.

  10. Sucker as a noun:

    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

  11. Sucker as a noun:

    Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments

  12. Sucker as a noun (American, informal):

    A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop

  13. Sucker as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A hard drinker; a soaker.

  14. Sucker as a noun (American, obsolete):

    An inhabitant of Illinois.

  15. Sucker as a noun (American, slang):

    A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person

    Examples:

    "usex One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings."

  16. Sucker as a noun:

    A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    Examples:

    "usex A sucker for ghost stories."

  17. Sucker as a noun (obsolete, vulgar, British slang):

    The penis.

  1. Sucker as a verb (horticulture, transitive):

    To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    Examples:

    "to sucker maize"

  2. Sucker as a verb (horticulture, intransitive):

    To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

  3. Sucker as a verb (transitive):

    To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    Examples:

    "The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract."

  1. Sucker as a noun (slang):

    A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

  2. Sucker as a noun (informal):

    Generalized term of reference to a person.

    Examples:

    "See if you can get that sucker working again."