If I say pass me a cup what do you give me

[lollylawyer]

I assert pass me a cup is any drinking vessel and my kids would give me a glass. DH says it can only refer to a mug with a handle. What’s a cup in your house?

A cup is a mug in my house. A vessel with a handle for hot drinks.

A glass is a vessel with no handle for cold drinks.

A cup is something that sits on a saucer. A mug is free-standing, not designed for a saucer. A glass is made out of glass.

Cup and mug are probably used interchangeably in many homes. I wouldn’t pass a glass if someone asked for a cup though!

I don’t have cups in my house but I’m aware that they are generally a lot smaller than a mug and sit on a saucer as a previous poster mentioned so I’d pass the smallest mug I had, never a glass and always with a handle.

Same.

I don’t think anyone in our house would say cup though. It’s mug or glass. We don’t have cups and saucers.

We have cups and mugs, but I'd probably give DH a mug as we use them more often and tend to call both cups. If I wanted the smaller size I'd say coffee cup.

Neither of us would ever refer to a glass as a cup.

Cup in our house would be a child's plastic one. A glass is a glass and a mug is a ceramic item with a handle.

A mug I'd assume it's for a hot drink.

Depends on who is asking and context. Kids would get passed a plastic beaker or glass. Adults it depends why they were asking.

A traditional tea cup with a saucer
As opposed to a mug or a glass.

I would pass you a mug, assuming you weren't brandishing a litre of Pepsi or a bottle of wine at the point of asking.

A cup is a Cup or mug something with a handle, interchangeable unless a elderly person asks in which case it is a cup and saucer not a mug.
A drinking vessel without a handle is a glass.
The only confusion is a plastic cup - which in my world should be called a plastic glass but not used in the house so irrelevant to this discussion.

Cups and glasses. The glasses are made of glass. Everything else is a cup.

Measuring cups in our house. A glass is a glass and a mug is a mug. I wouldn’t use cup to describe either.

I think cup can be used generically for any drinking vessel. Although in my mind it is a plastic beaker that the DC use for drinks.
If I specifically mean a handled hot beverage vessel I would say mug, as we don't have any "cup and saucer" cups in this house.

Cup would describe either a cup or a mug. Probably more likely to say cup than mug to be honest.

If I asked for a cup and someone handed me a glass I'd be a bit flummoxed and ask them to put the glass back and get me an actual cup.

Cup goes with saucer. Would accept a mug being a cup but not a glass.

Usually, in our household that would mean a hot drink receptacle with handle. But that's because we drink a lot of tea...

When DC were smaller, then it could just as easily have meant a plastic juice cup.

Because of that (fairly recent) history, I wouldn't object to it being used about a glass (especially one made from thick glass, not too delicate) even though asking specifically for a glass would be more precise/expected if that's what's being referred to.

But thinking about it I would offer a cup of tea to guests, but serve it in a mug. Although most likely just to offer "a brew"

Same.

If we have cup of coffee it’s actually a mug so that’s what I’d hand you op.

We mainly use "cup" to refer to the plastic cups our young DDs drink out of.

I can only see a cup as half a brassiere in my (orange) head.

A mug. A cup if indicated by the circumstances. Unlikely to pass a glass unless it was really obvious what you meant and you’d just got muddled up and used the wrong word.

Technically a cup comes with a saucer and is smaller than a mug. However, we don't own any of those so cup would mean a mug in this house but never a glass. When the kids were little and we had all the plastic tommee tippee crap it would also have applied to some kind of sippy cup.

A mug or a teacup. Never a glass.