英语词汇“as muck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. colloquial. as muck: used as intensifier in the sense ‘very, completely’. sick as muck: = sick as mud at mud n.¹ Phrases 2b. wet as muck: very wet, thoroughly wet (cf. muck-wet adj. at Compounds 2).common as muck: see common adj.

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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > very wet [phrase]

like, as wet as, a drowned ratc1500

wet as muck1691

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 50 Elsewhere Muck signifies Dung, or Straw that lies rotting, which is usually very moist. Hence those Proverbial Similies, As wet as muck, muck-wet.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. i. 14 ‘How did you find yourself when you got home, Sir?’ ‘How? why wet as muck.’

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 6 Our parson he got drunk as muck.

a1817 W. Muir Poems (1818) 26 A' saft an' soaket, wet as muck.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 385 In addition to this, it was ‘as thick as muck’, and the ice was all about us.

1878 Notes & Queries 26 Jan. 73/2 If a Scottish southland shepherd comes soaking wet from the hill, or a farmer from the plough..each will describe himself as being ‘wet as muck’.

1917 M. Gibson Let. in Inglorious Soldier (1968) vi. 276 Watson ‘must be as sick as muck’.

1926 E. Duthie Three Short Plays 8 Weel, they'd jist need to be, for the last were as weet's muck.

1935 J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me viii. 154 He would be out any ball and poor old George would be as sick as muck.

1992 S. Gates Rag Nymph (BNC) 56 They don't take them under a shilling a week, and God knows what they charge when they live in... My God! mean as muck, they are.

单词	as muck
释义	> as lemmas as muck P1. colloquial. as muck: used as intensifier in the sense ‘very, completely’. sick as muck: = sick as mud at mud n.¹ Phrases 2b. wet as muck: very wet, thoroughly wet (cf. muck-wet adj. at Compounds 2).common as muck: see common adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > very wet [phrase] like, as wet as, a drowned ratc1500 wet as muck1691 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 50 Elsewhere Muck signifies Dung, or Straw that lies rotting, which is usually very moist. Hence those Proverbial Similies, As wet as muck, muck-wet. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. i. 14 ‘How did you find yourself when you got home, Sir?’ ‘How? why wet as muck.’ 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 6 Our parson he got drunk as muck. a1817 W. Muir Poems (1818) 26 A' saft an' soaket, wet as muck. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 385 In addition to this, it was ‘as thick as muck’, and the ice was all about us. 1878 Notes & Queries 26 Jan. 73/2 If a Scottish southland shepherd comes soaking wet from the hill, or a farmer from the plough..each will describe himself as being ‘wet as muck’. 1917 M. Gibson Let. in Inglorious Soldier (1968) vi. 276 Watson ‘must be as sick as muck’. 1926 E. Duthie Three Short Plays 8 Weel, they'd jist need to be, for the last were as weet's muck. 1935 J. C. Masterman Fate cannot harm Me viii. 154 He would be out any ball and poor old George would be as sick as muck. 1992 S. Gates Rag Nymph (BNC) 56 They don't take them under a shilling a week, and God knows what they charge when they live in... My God! mean as muck, they are. extracted from muckn.¹ < as lemmas
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