释义 |
mucksy, a. dial.|ˈmʌksɪ| Also 7–8 (New England) muxy. [f. muck n. + -sy (cf. tricksy, clumsy, tipsy).] ‘Mucky’, dirty, slushy.
1666–1715in 1st Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899) II. 218, 258, etc., The muxy [muxey, muxie] meddow. 1855Kingsley Westward Ho! xiv, Mary runs in,..slips..her best gown over her dirt, and awaits the coming guests, who make a few long faces at the ‘mucksy sort of a place’. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xlvi, When the ground appeared through the crust of bubbled snow..it was all so soaked and sodden, and, as we call it, ‘mucksy’, that [etc.]. |