Just hijacking this thread for another verb enquiry.
Have you guys heard of another meaning of the verb " mug"? Besides robbing somebody, of course. Now that I'm in Toronto I get the strangest looks whenever I say that "I'm going home to mug" or "I have loads of mugging to do for my exams and I'm running out of time".
I don't think it's something Singaporean. It sounds too... erm... English. The OED describes this particular meaning to be a slang for "cram". Since my Toronto friends do not use "mug" this way at all, I'm assuming that it's UK slang? Or that this verb is also obsolete in UK as well, and we are still using it because of some archaic English remments of a colonial past?
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