muck
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Slimy mud, sludge.
— The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
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Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
— What's that green muck on the floor?
- Grub, slop, swill
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Money.
— the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
- The pile of discarded cards.
- Heroin.
- Pornography.
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Semen.
— Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
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Food, especially that eaten quickly.
— Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
动词 v.
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To shovel muck from.
— We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
- To manure with muck.
- To do a dirty job.
- To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
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To vomit.
— Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
- To eat; to devour or guzzle.
词汇关系
衍生词
cinemuck
common as muck
de-muck
foreign muck
guck
muck about
muck and bullets
muck around
mucker
muck fly
muckheap
muckhill
muck in
muckite
muckland
muckmidden
muckology
muck out
muckrake
muckraker
muck-snipe
muck spreader
muck sweat
muck tube
muck-up
muck up
muckworm
mucky
where there's muck there's brass
词源
词源 1
From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.
词源 2
From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.
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