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单词 muckamuck
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muckamuckn.1

Brit. /ˈmʌkəmʌk/, U.S. /ˈməkəˌmək/
Forms: 1800s muca muc, 1800s– muck-a-muck, 1800s– muckamuck, 1800s– muck-muck, 1900s– makmak.
Origin: A borrowing from Chinook Jargon. Etymon: Chinook Jargon muckamuck.
Etymology: < Chinook Jargon muckamuck (noun) food, (verb) to eat, perhaps < Nootka ma·ḥo·ma(q-) choice whalemeat. Compare muckamuck n.2 and muckamuck v.The word occurs slightly earlier in a glossary:1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 150 Muck-a-muck, Provisions, eat.
North American. Now rare.
In north-western North America: food.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
1852 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon Territory) 25 Dec. The aborigine..‘put’ for the settlement with a sort of legs-do-your-duty-for-the-body-is-in-danger resolution for his muckamuck.
1880 Forest & Stream 11 Nov. 285/2 We should have to come ashore and have some ‘muck-a-muck’.
1895 H. S. Somerset Land of Muskeg 167 Yes, all kinds of muck-a-muck at McLeod; jam, cake, biscuits..plenty plenty muck-a-muck, you see.
1915 R. D. Cumming Skookum Chuck Fables 18 Perhaps he had bought all his luxuries on jaw-bone from one store while he paid cash for his muck-a-muck in another.
1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails 74 Hi-ya tillicum... You plenty muck-a-muck stop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

muckamuckn.2

Brit. /ˈmʌkəmʌk/, U.S. /ˈməkəˌmək/
Forms: 1900s– muck-a-muck, 1900s– muckamuck, 1900s– mucky-muck, 1900s– mukamuk.
Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: high muck-a-muck n.
Etymology: Back-formation < high muck-a-muck n., interpreted as containing English high . Compare muckamuck n.1 and high muck-a-muck n.
North American colloquial (frequently depreciative).
An important person, a bigwig; = high muck-a-muck n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person
bug1536
bladder1579
God almighty1632
cockalorumc1796
his nibs1821
prima donna1834
fly on the (coach-)wheel1840
high muck-a-muck1856
nobs1877
high muckety-muck1882
muckamuck1883
Pooh Bah1886
prima ballerina1923
I AM1926
muckety-muck1927
Pooter1957
cheese1965
1883 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 6 May 2/2 They want to be Most Worthy High Grand Muck-a-Muck of the entire ranch.
1885 Daily Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 1 Dec. 6/5 You go and let Mont Hamilton parade as the big muck-a-muck of my own Jeffersonians.
1895 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 6 Feb. 1/1 Mayor Strong a muck-a-muck indeed.
1912 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 129 Shaman, Ju-ju or Angekok Minister, Mukamuk, Bonze.
1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 194 One of the big mucky-mucks from the other side of the water had decided to make economies.
1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep iv. 61 The Governor and the big mucky-mucks from New York with the oil company, was passing close to the levee.
1966 H. Kane Conceal & Disguise iv. 28 Cape Ulrich was for the muckamucks, the coupon-clippers, the expense account lads, the heavy rich.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 27/1 Orpen was always let out at the members' enclosure, but he never sat with the mucky-mucks.
1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 102/1 The hotel houses the legendary Capital Bar, which is the prime watering hole for local and visiting muck-a-mucks.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 28/4 The mucky-mucks in Hurston's analysis complained that the common element didn't know how to behave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

muckamuckv.

Brit. /ˈmʌkəmʌk/, U.S. /ˈməkəˌmək/
Forms: 1800s muckemuck, 1800s– muck-a-muck, 1900s– muckamuck.
Origin: A borrowing from Chinook Jargon. Etymon: Chinook Jargon muckamuck.
Etymology: < Chinook Jargon muckamuck (see muckamuck n.1). Compare slightly earlier muckamuck n.1The word is recorded earlier in glossaries:1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour xxiv. 338 Eat, mucamuc.1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 150 Muck-a-muck, Provisions, eat.
North American. Now rare.
intransitive. In north-western North America: to eat.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
1853 T. Winthrop Let. 13 June in Canoe & Saddle (1913) II. ii. 252 We stopped once or twice for them to ‘muck-a-muck’, which they are ready for forty times a day.
1927 A. Philip Painted Cliff xiv. 153 ‘I hate to bother you,’ apologized Foghorn from the doorway, ‘but there's a feller here wants to muck-a-muck.’
1945 Senior Scholastic 23 Apr. 19/3 Muckamuck—to eat, food, to browse, etc. Muckamuck chuck, to drink.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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