| 单词 | mucking about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmucking about mucking about n. aimless or frivolous behaviour; idling, time-wasting; (also) flirtatious play. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring spillinga1122 impairment1340 marring1357 damaginga1400 defacingc1400 spoiling1479 violation?c1500 facingc1540 deface1556 defacement1561 infection1563 spoil1575 endamageance1594 damagement1603 mismaking1615 empoisonmenta1626 vitiation1635 vitiating1669 spoilage1815 savaging1858 spoliation1867 mucking about1969 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 539/2 Mucking-about,..an intimate fondling: low (mostly costers'). 1969 Listener 27 Feb. 264/3 ‘Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence,’ said Auden in his poem on Oxford: perhaps he knew what he was doing when he omitted the phrase in his last mucking-about with the piece. 1979 C. Hawes et al. Curriculum & Reality in Afr. Primary Schools (BNC) The child plays..a very full part in it;..running errands, performing religious duties.., alongside all the..chit-chat and the ‘mucking about’ which is part of growing up everywhere. 1989 Spectator 15 Apr. 24/2 The comic art is perhaps seen as inspired mucking about. < as lemmas |
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