| 单词 | to be all of a muck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be all of a muck 3. colloquial. A dishevelled, sweaty, or dirty state. Chiefly in to be in a muck, to be all of a muck. Also figurative.muck of sweat: cf. muck sweat n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] foulnessOE uncleannessOE filthheadc1300 foulhead1340 filtha1425 filthiness?c1425 horynessc1425 uncleanliness1502 immundicity?1541 filthhood1582 dirtiness1607 slovenliness1617 muckiness1676 turpitude1684 muck1766 dirt1774 grot1971 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ix. 83 She observed, that by the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat. 1788 M. P. Andrews Belphegor i. ii. 6 Ouf, I'm all of a muck, let's take a little breath. 1800 Sporting Mag. 16 284 ‘I'm all in such a muck’, she cried, ‘with so much dust and jolting.’ 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxiii. 183 When a body's in such a muck of trouble. 1893 G. Leveson-Gower Gloss. Surrey Words (at cited word) I'm ashamed you should come in, we are all in a muck. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 10/7 Already I am in what certain excellent persons on the Eastern Shore call a muck of a sweat. 1989 Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. 17 45 Ah'm all i mi muck (= ‘I'm in my working clothes’). < as lemmas |
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