单词 | muckrake |
释义 | muckraken. 1. A rake for collecting muck; spec. a dungfork; (also) a rake for clearing debris from ponds, etc. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > other tools and equipment pollhache1324 poleaxe1356 muckrake1366 pestlea1382 botea1450 staff1459 press-board1558 reel1593 water crane1658 lathekin1659 tower1662 dressing hook1683 liner1683 hovel1686 flax-brake1688 nipper1688 horse1728 tap1797 feather-stick1824 bow1839 safety belt1840 economizer1841 throttle damper1849 cleat1854 leg brace1857 bark-peeler1862 pugging screw1862 nail driver1863 spool1864 turntable1865 ovate1872 tension bar1879 icebreaker1881 spreader1881 toucher1881 window pole1888 mushroom head1890 rat1894 slackline1896 auger1897 latch hook1900 thimble1901 horse1904 pipe jack1909 mulcher1910 hand plate1911 splashguard1917 cheese-cutter1927 airbrasive1945 impactor1945 fogger1946 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake muckrake1366 wording hook1605 swath-rake1652 dew-rake1659 pick1777 twitch rake1798 tooth-rakec1830 pea-rake1867 buck-rake1893 sea-rake1902 1366 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 54 (MED) Vno muckrake cum ij Tyndes ferre. 1403 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 25 (MED) j mukrake de ferro, ij d. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 39 The Interpreter..has them first into a Room, where was a man..with a Muckrake in his hand. View more context for this quotation 1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xxi. 240 Wo unto them, when Bunker-Hill Shall be levelled into house-lots; when the muck-rake Disinters their bones who fell at her Marathon! 1895 P. H. Emerson Marsh-Leaves from Norfolk Broad Land xxiii. 66 Every day he asked Farmer Mason if he didn't want a muck-rake. 1950 Philos. Q. 1 26 We ply the muckrake and never look up. 1993 Hand Tools (Brit. Trust Conservation Volunteers) 9 Cromes, also known as muck rakes.., are mainly used to drag reeds and rubbish from ponds. 2. figurative. A ready or indiscriminate means for gathering in wealth, information, etc.; a means for exposing scandal or uncovering sordid information.In some uses with allusion to Bunyan's description of a man with a muckrake (see quot. 1684 at sense 1), as an emblem of the pursuit of worldly gain. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth chinch?a1300 wretch1303 chincher1333 muckererc1390 mokerarda1400 muglard1440 gatherer?a1513 hoarder?a1513 warner1513 hardhead1519 snudge1545 cob1548 snidge1548 muckmonger1566 mucker1567 miser?1577 scrape-penny1584 money-miser1586 gromwell-gainer1588 muckscrape1589 muckworm1598 scrib1600 muckraker1601 morkin-gnoff1602 scrape-scall1602 incubo1607 accumulator1611 gripe-money1611 scrape-good1611 silver-hider1611 gripe1621 scrapeling1629 clutch1630 scrape-pelfa1640 volpone1672 spare-penny1707 save-all1729 bagger1740 spare-thrift1803 money-codger1818 hunger-rot1828 muckrake1850 muckthrift1852 gripe-penny1860 hugger-mugger1862 Scrooge1940 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > bringing into disrepute > muck-raking > one who muckrake1850 muckraker1906 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > bringing into disrepute > muck-raking > interest in muckrake1850 1850 Home Evangelization (Amer. Tract Soc.) 144 Mammon may not lift his eyes from his ‘muckrake’ long enough to see all this. 1868 F. W. Ballard in Galaxy Mar. 298 The domestic discords..of the patriarch do not come within the purview of our present inquiry. Let us rather, with muck-rake and drag-net, make prize of more modern material, which may be found lying loose around and within comparatively easy reach. 1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. 241 Those all-gathering muckrakes, who in due time are succeeded by all-scattering forks, which scatter riches as profusely as their sires gathered them parsimoniously. 1895 Sat. Rev. 26 Jan. 125 The ‘garbage of mythland’ that Wagner gathered together with a ‘muck rake’. 1906 T. Roosevelt in Cincinnati Enquirer 15 Apr. 4/4 The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 18 Then you start your muckrake scandel [sic] And good men you dare defame. 1968 Listener 28 Nov. 726/2 Frank Harris deplored the dismal fate of Sophia in a Paris boarding-house,..regretting that Bennett..preferred to give her a muck rake instead of a soul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). muckrakev. Originally U.S. 1. intransitive. To rake for dirt, rubbish, etc. Chiefly figurative: to search for evidence of corruption and scandal, esp. among powerful or well-known people or institutions. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > be discredited [verb (intransitive)] > take interest in scandal muckrake1879 1879 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 507 Men, forgetful of the perennial poetry of the world, muck-raking in a litter of fugitive refuse. 1954 Amer. Scholar 23 421 McCarthy would enjoy himself if he could muckrake in our barnyard. 1970 Guardian 6 Mar. 8/3 They need no prompting to register complaints, muckrake among the police, petition for redress against indecencies. 1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Nov. 24/1 Years later I wrote a book about the company, not to muckrake, but to examine successful African-American capitalism. 2. transitive. To search through for evidence of corruption and scandal; to subject to investigation of this kind. Also: to seek out (scandalous information). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > subject to muck-raking muckrake1910 1910 [see muckraked adj. at Derivatives]. 1913 J. London Let. 26 June (1966) 388 I..muck-rake the powers that be from one end of the world to the other. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 274/1 Tom was seeking..to devil the standpat Republicans from Pennsylvania by muckraking certain great corporations of that State. 1943 M. Flavin Journey in Dark 193 The country has been muckraked from one end to the other. 1973 G. Jenkins Cleft of Stars vii. 86 I couldn't bring myself to muck-rake details of the guard's murder. Derivatives ˈmuckraked adj. rare subjected to muckraking. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [adjective] > muck-raking > subjected to muckraked1910 1910 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Dec. 8 Their knowledge of how it feels to be a muck-raked millionaire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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