| 释义 |
▪ I. mux, v. dial. and U.S. local.|mʌks|
[Of obscure formation; cf. muss v.2, muck v., and dial. mucksy dirty.]
= muck v. 4.
1806Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 26 Aug. 272 (Th.), To do observance, make obliging mention, Wink lovingly, mux chastity away. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 287 To mux is much used in New England for muss; as, ‘Don't mux my crinoline.’ 1869Blackmore Lorna Doone III. x. 157 By vice of mismanagement on the part of my mother, and Nicholas Snowe, who had thoroughly muxed up everything. 1877J. M. Bailey They all do It 22 Stop muxin' that bread!..you've eaten enough for twenty people. I shan't have you muxing and gauming up the victuals. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 77 Mux, to handle, paw over, maul. 1934West Virginia Rev. Dec. 78/1 One may hear muxed in certain sections of West Virginia now and then... It is a term synonymous to messed up, rather than a form of mixed.
▪ II. mux, n. U.S. local.|mʌks|
[f. the vb.]
A disordered or muddled state; = muck n.1 4.
1848in Amer. Speech (1935) X. 41/1 ‘In a mux.’ Confused, disarranged. 1865E. Stoddard Two Men iv. 28, I knew you would come back. Now we are in a mux. 1890Cent. Dict., Mux, work performed in an awkward or improper manner; a botch; a mess; as, he made a mux of it. 1910Dialect Notes III. 454 Mux, confusion, ‘all in a mux’. |