mudlarkn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌdlɑːk/, U.S.

/ˈmədˌlɑrk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.¹, lark n.¹

Etymology: < mud n.¹ + lark n.¹, probably humorously after skylark n.

1. slang. A hog; pork. Now rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog

barrowc950

hogOE

swine hog1381

barrow-pig1547

stag1784

mudlark1785

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Mud lark, a hog.

1801 T. Campbell Mobiade in W. Beattie Life & Lett. T. Campbell (1849) I. 380 Or fry the mud-lark's odoriferous wing... The poetical name for a pig, principally used in..Kilmainham jail.

1833 J. Neal Down-easters i. 47 I should like to know..what upon irth he means by..mud-larks that's made into Virginny-ham.

1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 129/2 A hog clandestinely killed outside of camp and smuggled in..was called a ‘slow bear’... ‘Mud-lark’ signified the same thing.

1923 Dial. Notes 5 240 Boiled potatoes an' mud lark.

2. colloquial.

a. A person who scavenges for usable debris in the tidal mud of a river, harbour, etc. Also: someone who scavenges for such debris in a sewer; (in extended use) a beggar who operates near a river (rare); a person who cleans out or clears a sewer (rare). Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > from vessels on water

mudlark1796

water-sneak1807

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who scavenges around boats

mudlark1796

mudlarker1818

1796 P. Colquhoun Police of Metropolis iii. 60 Men and boys, known by the name of Mud-larks, who prowl about, and watch under the ships when the tide will permit.

1796 P. Colquhoun Police of Metropolis iii. 61 Gentlemen plunderers..are far more pernicious than the lumpers or mud-larks.

1801 Monthly Rev. 35 243 Miserable beings..accustomed to grub in the river at low water for old ropes..known by the appellation of Mud-larks.

1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas xi, in Pop. Tales I. 77 He..became what is called a mud-lark; that is a plunderer of the ships cargoes that unload in the Thames.

1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 105/1 These ‘mud-larks’..bear generally a bad character... Their functions do not end with the shore, but in the sewer.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 155/2 The mud-larks collect whatever they happen to find, such as coals, bits of old-iron, [etc.].

1859 C. Hotten Dict. Mod. Slang 65 Mud-larks,..occasionally those men who cleanse the sewers, with great boots and sou'wester hats.

1892 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 233 The same crowd of mud-larks and loafers would come rushing into the water to offer..their services.

1959 Times 16 Mar. (Port of London Suppl.) p. xvi/1 ‘Long apron men’ and mudlarks who..waited to pick up goods thrown to them by accomplices on board merchantmen.

1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 450 It was found by an experienced mudlark, licensed by the Port of London Authority to dig and search the foreshore at that point.

1994 T. Clark Junkets on Sad Planet viii. 137 Coal-heavers, or even those Mudlarks who comb the City sewers for any scrap of stuff they can find to sell.

1995 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 71/3 The public is allowed to beachcomb on the shores, but serious mudlarks..must obtain a license (£9 per annum) from the PLA and abide by its rules.

b. A street urchin; a child who plays in mud. Also (in extended use): any dirty or untidy person.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child

blackguard1699

street girl1764

street boy1796

mudlark1814

street urchin1827

gamin1832

street child1839

Arab1847

street Arab1853

muckworm1859

scuttler1867

gutter-snipec1869

gutter-child1870

gavroche1876

gutter-snippet1891

voyoua1896

street kid1910

dead-end kid1928

gurrier1936

1814 S. T. Coleridge Let. 12 Sept. (1959) III. 532 I..shall therefore send forth my two She-bears to tear in pieces the most obnoxious of these ragged children in intellect, and to scare the rest of these mischievous little Mud-larks back to their crevice-nests & lurking Holes.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 426 The entire group, owing to the wretched state of the road, were nothing but mudlarks!

1865 Sat. Rev. 5 July 4 It is Lord Palmerston's misfortune..to number three or four of these incurable mudlarks among his official offspring.

1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 26 Such a boy looks down upon mudlarks very much, calling them nippers and other scornful names.

1944 M. Lowry Let. Sept. (1995) I. 462 Thanks a million for everything: sorry, I was probably a loathsome guest, a sloth or mud lark might have been better.

1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay iv. 44 Skinny-dipping is a midnight sport for mudlarks and water babies.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 48/4 The filthier the work—and hence the clothes—of colliery girls or mudlarks the more he doted on them.

c. Chiefly in plural. (A nickname for) a soldier of the Royal Engineers.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]

spahi1562

legionnaire1595

strelitz1603

Croat1623

deli1667

Croatian1700

lancer1712

highlander1725

lambs1744

royals1762

light-bob1778

fly-slicer1785

Life Guardsman1785

royals?1795

Hottentot1796

yeoman1798

pandour1800

Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811

forty-two man1816

kilty1842

Zouave1848

bumblerc1850

Inniskilliner1853

blue cap1857

turco1860

Zou-Zou1860

mudlark1878

king's man1883

Johnny1888

Piffer1892

evzone1897

horse gunner1897

dink1906

army ranger1910

grognard1912

Jock1914

chocolate soldier1915

Cook's tourist1915

dinkum1916

Anzaca1918

choc1917

ranger1942

Chindit1943

Desert Rat1944

Green Beret1949

1878 R. Trimen Regiments Brit. Army 42 Royal Engineers..nicknamed ‘the Mudlarks’.

2002 shop.store.yahoo.com 8 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) Corps of Royal Engineers. Formed 1717 a part of the military branch of Board of Ordinance, Regimental Depot, Chatham; nicknamed ‘The Mudlarks’.

a. British regional. Any of various birds that frequent muddy places or use mud in their nest-building; esp. (a) the rock pipit, Anthus petrosus; (b) the Eurasian skylark, Alauda arvensis.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > other types

Richard's pipit1830

mudlark1840

1840 J. H. Frere Birds 64 The Sand-Martins, And Mud Larks, too, were busy in their department, Mixing the mortar.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 317/1 The Mud-Lark, Rock-Lark, Titlark, and Tree-Lark are Pipits.

1890 Nature Notes 1 24 With regard to ‘larks’, the Mudlark is the Skylark, so called from its nest being lined with mud.

a1903 W. M. E. Fowler in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 190/1 [Hampshire] Bunt-larks is rare, but mud-larks is vary common hereabouts.

1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Eng. & Folk-names Brit. Birds 162 Mud Lark, a name for the Rock-Pipit.

1968 C. E. Jackson Brit. Names of Birds 40 Dunlin:..mud-lark Glos.

b. Australian. The magpie lark, Grallina cyanoleuca, which builds a bowl-shaped nest of mud.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark)

magpie lark1843

peewee1879

mudlark1898

Murray magpie1940

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 278/1 Magpie-Lark..an Australian black-and-white bird..resembling the Magpie in appearance, but smaller; called also Pee-wee, and Mudlark, from its building its nest of mud.

1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby xi. 290 The mud larks, rather like our water-wagtails, only much larger, come there with the most wanton flutter of broad black and white tails.

1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 460/1 The name ‘magpie-lark’ was presumably bestowed upon it because it runs on the ground like a lark and has pied plumage;..‘mud-lark’, owing to its preference for the muddy banks of creeks and waterholes.

1978 D. Stuart Wedgetail View 36 Magpie, mudlark and shell parrot spearing in jewelled wave through spinifex.

4. colloquial. A horse which runs well in wet or muddy conditions; = mudder n.¹ 1.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > with particular qualities or faults

sticker1779

rogue1796

first string1865

coward1880

mudder1892

goat1894

morning-glory1898

mud runner1905

mudlark1906

squib1908

1906 Bar & Buffet Aug. 9/4 Mud lark, a horse that excels on a muddy track.

1914 A. B. Paterson in Song of Pen (1983) 312 Some horses revel in mud... The mudlark contingent are generally horses with good loin power.

1975 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 6 Apr. 48 Born Star a Mudlark. Born Star, a two-year-old, yesterday outclassed the field at Sandown in his first start on a rain-affected track.

1994 Sporting Life 28 Oct. 3/2 This son of Conquistador Cielo (a prolific sire of mudlarks) took a conditions race on a sloppy track by 12 and a half lengths.

Compounds

mudlark meet n. colloquial a sporting event for old cars, run on tidal mud or sand.

ΚΠ

1971 National Geographic May 719/2 Guernsey invented annual mudlark meets, in which old bangers—near-wrecked automobiles—are raced across the oozing sands at low tide.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mudlark
释义	mudlarkn. Brit. /ˈmʌdlɑːk/, U.S. /ˈmədˌlɑrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.¹, lark n.¹ Etymology: < mud n.¹ + lark n.¹, probably humorously after skylark n. 1. slang. A hog; pork. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog barrowc950 hogOE swine hog1381 barrow-pig1547 stag1784 mudlark1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Mud lark, a hog. 1801 T. Campbell Mobiade in W. Beattie Life & Lett. T. Campbell (1849) I. 380 Or fry the mud-lark's odoriferous wing... The poetical name for a pig, principally used in..Kilmainham jail. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters i. 47 I should like to know..what upon irth he means by..mud-larks that's made into Virginny-ham. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 129/2 A hog clandestinely killed outside of camp and smuggled in..was called a ‘slow bear’... ‘Mud-lark’ signified the same thing. 1923 Dial. Notes 5 240 Boiled potatoes an' mud lark. 2. colloquial. a. A person who scavenges for usable debris in the tidal mud of a river, harbour, etc. Also: someone who scavenges for such debris in a sewer; (in extended use) a beggar who operates near a river (rare); a person who cleans out or clears a sewer (rare). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > from vessels on water mudlark1796 water-sneak1807 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who scavenges around boats mudlark1796 mudlarker1818 1796 P. Colquhoun Police of Metropolis iii. 60 Men and boys, known by the name of Mud-larks, who prowl about, and watch under the ships when the tide will permit. 1796 P. Colquhoun Police of Metropolis iii. 61 Gentlemen plunderers..are far more pernicious than the lumpers or mud-larks. 1801 Monthly Rev. 35 243 Miserable beings..accustomed to grub in the river at low water for old ropes..known by the appellation of Mud-larks. 1804 M. Edgeworth Lame Jervas xi, in Pop. Tales I. 77 He..became what is called a mud-lark; that is a plunderer of the ships cargoes that unload in the Thames. 1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 105/1 These ‘mud-larks’..bear generally a bad character... Their functions do not end with the shore, but in the sewer. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 155/2 The mud-larks collect whatever they happen to find, such as coals, bits of old-iron, [etc.]. 1859 C. Hotten Dict. Mod. Slang 65 Mud-larks,..occasionally those men who cleanse the sewers, with great boots and sou'wester hats. 1892 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 233 The same crowd of mud-larks and loafers would come rushing into the water to offer..their services. 1959 Times 16 Mar. (Port of London Suppl.) p. xvi/1 ‘Long apron men’ and mudlarks who..waited to pick up goods thrown to them by accomplices on board merchantmen. 1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 450 It was found by an experienced mudlark, licensed by the Port of London Authority to dig and search the foreshore at that point. 1994 T. Clark Junkets on Sad Planet viii. 137 Coal-heavers, or even those Mudlarks who comb the City sewers for any scrap of stuff they can find to sell. 1995 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 71/3 The public is allowed to beachcomb on the shores, but serious mudlarks..must obtain a license (£9 per annum) from the PLA and abide by its rules. b. A street urchin; a child who plays in mud. Also (in extended use): any dirty or untidy person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child blackguard1699 street girl1764 street boy1796 mudlark1814 street urchin1827 gamin1832 street child1839 Arab1847 street Arab1853 muckworm1859 scuttler1867 gutter-snipec1869 gutter-child1870 gavroche1876 gutter-snippet1891 voyoua1896 street kid1910 dead-end kid1928 gurrier1936 1814 S. T. Coleridge Let. 12 Sept. (1959) III. 532 I..shall therefore send forth my two She-bears to tear in pieces the most obnoxious of these ragged children in intellect, and to scare the rest of these mischievous little Mud-larks back to their crevice-nests & lurking Holes. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 426 The entire group, owing to the wretched state of the road, were nothing but mudlarks! 1865 Sat. Rev. 5 July 4 It is Lord Palmerston's misfortune..to number three or four of these incurable mudlarks among his official offspring. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 26 Such a boy looks down upon mudlarks very much, calling them nippers and other scornful names. 1944 M. Lowry Let. Sept. (1995) I. 462 Thanks a million for everything: sorry, I was probably a loathsome guest, a sloth or mud lark might have been better. 1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay iv. 44 Skinny-dipping is a midnight sport for mudlarks and water babies. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 48/4 The filthier the work—and hence the clothes—of colliery girls or mudlarks the more he doted on them. c. Chiefly in plural. (A nickname for) a soldier of the Royal Engineers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun] spahi1562 legionnaire1595 strelitz1603 Croat1623 deli1667 Croatian1700 lancer1712 highlander1725 lambs1744 royals1762 light-bob1778 fly-slicer1785 Life Guardsman1785 royals?1795 Hottentot1796 yeoman1798 pandour1800 Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811 forty-two man1816 kilty1842 Zouave1848 bumblerc1850 Inniskilliner1853 blue cap1857 turco1860 Zou-Zou1860 mudlark1878 king's man1883 Johnny1888 Piffer1892 evzone1897 horse gunner1897 dink1906 army ranger1910 grognard1912 Jock1914 chocolate soldier1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 Anzaca1918 choc1917 ranger1942 Chindit1943 Desert Rat1944 Green Beret1949 1878 R. Trimen Regiments Brit. Army 42 Royal Engineers..nicknamed ‘the Mudlarks’. 2002 shop.store.yahoo.com 8 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) Corps of Royal Engineers. Formed 1717 a part of the military branch of Board of Ordinance, Regimental Depot, Chatham; nicknamed ‘The Mudlarks’. 3. a. British regional. Any of various birds that frequent muddy places or use mud in their nest-building; esp. (a) the rock pipit, Anthus petrosus; (b) the Eurasian skylark, Alauda arvensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > other types Richard's pipit1830 mudlark1840 1840 J. H. Frere Birds 64 The Sand-Martins, And Mud Larks, too, were busy in their department, Mixing the mortar. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 317/1 The Mud-Lark, Rock-Lark, Titlark, and Tree-Lark are Pipits. 1890 Nature Notes 1 24 With regard to ‘larks’, the Mudlark is the Skylark, so called from its nest being lined with mud. a1903 W. M. E. Fowler in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 190/1 [Hampshire] Bunt-larks is rare, but mud-larks is vary common hereabouts. 1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Eng. & Folk-names Brit. Birds 162 Mud Lark, a name for the Rock-Pipit. 1968 C. E. Jackson Brit. Names of Birds 40 Dunlin:..mud-lark Glos. b. Australian. The magpie lark, Grallina cyanoleuca, which builds a bowl-shaped nest of mud. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark) magpie lark1843 peewee1879 mudlark1898 Murray magpie1940 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 278/1 Magpie-Lark..an Australian black-and-white bird..resembling the Magpie in appearance, but smaller; called also Pee-wee, and Mudlark, from its building its nest of mud. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby xi. 290 The mud larks, rather like our water-wagtails, only much larger, come there with the most wanton flutter of broad black and white tails. 1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 460/1 The name ‘magpie-lark’ was presumably bestowed upon it because it runs on the ground like a lark and has pied plumage;..‘mud-lark’, owing to its preference for the muddy banks of creeks and waterholes. 1978 D. Stuart Wedgetail View 36 Magpie, mudlark and shell parrot spearing in jewelled wave through spinifex. 4. colloquial. A horse which runs well in wet or muddy conditions; = mudder n.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > with particular qualities or faults sticker1779 rogue1796 first string1865 coward1880 mudder1892 goat1894 morning-glory1898 mud runner1905 mudlark1906 squib1908 1906 Bar & Buffet Aug. 9/4 Mud lark, a horse that excels on a muddy track. 1914 A. B. Paterson in Song of Pen (1983) 312 Some horses revel in mud... The mudlark contingent are generally horses with good loin power. 1975 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 6 Apr. 48 Born Star a Mudlark. Born Star, a two-year-old, yesterday outclassed the field at Sandown in his first start on a rain-affected track. 1994 Sporting Life 28 Oct. 3/2 This son of Conquistador Cielo (a prolific sire of mudlarks) took a conditions race on a sloppy track by 12 and a half lengths. Compounds mudlark meet n. colloquial a sporting event for old cars, run on tidal mud or sand. ΚΠ 1971 National Geographic May 719/2 Guernsey invented annual mudlark meets, in which old bangers—near-wrecked automobiles—are raced across the oozing sands at low tide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mudlarkv. Brit. /ˈmʌdlɑːk/, U.S. /ˈmədˌlɑrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mudlark n. Etymology: < mudlark n. Compare earlier mudlarker n., mudlarking n., and mudlarking adj. intransitive. To carry on the occupation or activity of a mudlark (in various senses); to play in or with mud. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (intransitive)] wawc1440 swing1662 quizc1790 sea-bathe1792 mudlark1870 pogo1921 yo-yo1932 to jump rope1934 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud > wallow or dabble in mud muddlea1450 moila1566 soss1575 spuddle1630 mudlark1870 1870 Cornhill Mag. 21 366 If I had only had that money of Miss Childersleigh's, instead of mud-larking on the bank. 1894 Outing 24 193/2 He mingled with us for some time on the beach, mudlarked with the boys and watched our model yacht matches. 1962 P. Scott Birds of Paradise (1967) II. iii. 124 The Water, was, I suppose, my youth's equivalent of the childhood place of rhododendrons, but..I never played there, never took off my shoes and socks, splashed and mudlarked in it. 1990 H. Thurston Tidal Life 11/3 I have gone ‘mud-larking’ across the intertidal barrens of the Fundy mud flats to dig clams. 1995 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 70/2 Mudlarking through centuries of rubbish, you feel literally in touch with the people of the past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785v.1870
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mudlarkn.

Compounds

mudlarkv.