| 单词 | high-muck-a-muck |
| 释义 | high-muck-a-muck /huy"muk'euh muk", -muk"euh muk'/, n. an important, influential, or high-ranking person, esp. one who is pompous or conceited. Also, high-mucky-muck /huy"muk'ee muk", -muk"ee muk'/, high-muckety-muck /huy"muk'i tee muk", -muk"i tee muk'/. Also called muck-a-muck. [1855-60; < Chinook Jargon hayo makamak lit., plenty to eat, much food, perh. extended derisively to Indians of high status with much disposable wealth, as for potlatches; hayo < Nootka hayo ten (the base of various measures with suffixes for specific countable nouns); mak(a)mak eat, food < Nootka ma·ho·ma(q-) part of whale meat between blubber and flesh] |
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