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单词 muck-raker
释义

muck /muk/

noun
  1. Dung
  2. Manure
  3. Wet or clinging filth
  4. Anything contemptible or worthless
  5. Dirt, debris, rubble
  6. Gold (poetic and archaic)
  7. Rubbishy reading matter
  8. A mess
transitive verb
  1. To clear of muck (with out)
  2. To manure with muck
  3. To make dirty (with up)
  4. To make a mess of, to bungle (with up; muckˈ-up noun)
  5. To treat inconsiderately (with about or around)
intransitive verb (usu with about or around; informal)
  1. To potter
  2. To act the fool
ORIGIN: Prob Scand; cf ON myki, Dan mög dung

muckˈer noun

  1. A person who mucks
  2. A money-grubber (obsolete)
  3. A mess
  4. A mishap, disaster (orig a fall in the mire)
  5. A coarse, unrefined person
  6. A best friend, mate, sidekick
  7. A young townsman, not a student (old US)
transitive verb
  1. To hoard (obsolete)
  2. To squander
  3. To vitiate
intransitive verb
  1. To come to grief
  2. To make a muddle of anything

muckˈiness noun

muckˈy adjective (muckˈier; muckˈiest)

  1. Nasty, filthy
  2. Of the nature of muck
  3. Like muck

muck-a-muck see high-muck-a-muck

muckˈheap or muckˈ-midden noun

A dunghill

muckˈ-rake noun

A rake for manure

intransitive verb

To seek out and expose scandals or supposed scandals, whether for worthy or unworthy motives

muckˈ-raker noun

muckˈ-raking noun

muckˈspread intransitive verb

To spread manure

muckˈspreader noun

An agricultural machine for spreading manure

muckˈspreading noun

muckˈsweat noun (Brit)

Profuse sweat

muckˈ-worm noun

  1. A worm or grub that lives in muck
  2. A person who acquires money by mean devices
  3. A miser

Lady or Lord Muck (facetious)

A title or name applied to a woman or man assuming aristocratic airs

make a muck of (informal)

  1. To make dirty
  2. To bungle, mismanage

muck in (with) (informal)

  1. To share with
  2. To help, participate (in)

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