单词 | muckamuck |
释义 | muckamuckn.1 North American. Now rare. In north-western North America: food. ΘΚΠ 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 North American colloquial (frequently depreciative). An important person, a bigwig; = high muck-a-muck n. ΘΚΠ 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. North American. Now rare. intransitive. In north-western North America: to eat. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11852n.21883v.1853 |
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