mugware

There is a country store with the genuine “general line of groceries, coffins, nails, spices, hardware, footwear, tinware, mugware, chinaware, beware and mullen cheroots.”

1902 January 31, “Elks’ Comedy of Commerce”, in The Omaha Evening Bee, page 7

Then douse flames with 1 quart boiling water, stir and serve pronto in glass or silver mugware.

1953, Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 171

On June 17th, His special day, cheer him with a unique gift of mugware in robust scenes & colors.

1973 June 8, The Austin Statesman, volume 102, number 224, Austin, Tex., page 10

If they do that four times, then I am expected to get really excited when the rich guys with zinc oxide on their faces from San Diego beat more rich guys with more zinc oxide on their faces from Australia for some piece of silver mugware with a hole in its bottom that used to be bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, but that now lives in Perth or at “Crocodile” Dundee’s house, I forget which.

1987 January 18, David N. Rosenthal, “America’s Cup competition needs Soviet presence”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, page C-13

How to save money on your drinks at the Union, help out the environment, and possess a singularly attractive piece of mugware all in one fell swoop…

1990 November 26, The Daily Illini, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., page 21