mullock

poke mullock at (someone or something)

old-fashioned To taunt or mock someone or something; to make fun of someone or something. Primarily heard in Australia. The humorist has long been poking mullock at figures high in the social and political spheres, drawing the ire from many of them.See also: mullock, poke

poke mullock at

ridicule someone. Australian & New Zealand informal In Middle English, mullock meant ‘refuse or rubbish’, a sense which only survives in dialect use. In Australian English it came to be used of rock that either did not contain gold or from which the gold had been extracted, and it then developed the extended sense of ‘worthless information or nonsense’. This phrase dates from the early 20th century; compare with poke borak at (at borak).See also: mullock, poke

单词	mullock
释义	mullock mullock (ˈmʌlək) n1. (Mining & Quarrying) Austral waste material from a mine2. dialect a mess or muddle3. poke mullock at informal Austral to ridicule[C14: related to Old English myl dust, Old Norse mylja to crush; see muller] ˈmullocky adj mullock poke mullock at (someone or something) old-fashioned To taunt or mock someone or something; to make fun of someone or something. Primarily heard in Australia. The humorist has long been poking mullock at figures high in the social and political spheres, drawing the ire from many of them.See also: mullock, poke poke mullock at ridicule someone. Australian & New Zealand informal In Middle English, mullock meant ‘refuse or rubbish’, a sense which only survives in dialect use. In Australian English it came to be used of rock that either did not contain gold or from which the gold had been extracted, and it then developed the extended sense of ‘worthless information or nonsense’. This phrase dates from the early 20th century; compare with poke borak at (at borak).See also: mullock, poke mullock mullock [′məl·ək] (mining engineering) waste rock
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