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单词 mouch
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mouchv.

Brit. /muːtʃ/, U.S. /mutʃ/
Forms: Middle English meche (transmission error), Middle English mocche, Middle English mucche, Middle English muchche, Middle English muche, 1500s mouche, 1600s 1800s– mouch, 1900s– mooch.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to munch v. (compare quot. a1425 at main sense).
Now English regional.
transitive. To eat up, to eat greedily. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 28 Þe knaue crommeþ is crop er þe cok crawe; He momeleþe & moccheþ ant marreþ is mawe.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 914 Some wolde mucche [v.rr. muchche, mucche, muche, meche; monche] hire mete allone.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rivv/2 To Mouche [rhymed with couche, touche, auouche], eate, mandere.
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. E1v Doe you remember husband how hee woulde mouch vp my Cheese cakes, he hath forgot this now, but weele remember him.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Mouch (old word) to eat up.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 130 I never saw a man mouching so in all my born days.
a1903 D. Lawton in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 175/2 [W. Yorkshire] Aw seed him moochin a thick buttercake.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 196/1 Mouch, to guzzle greedily.

Derivatives

moucher n. Obsolete rare a voracious eater.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating heartily or greedily > hearty eater
moucher1570
trencherman1590
Hungarian1600
knife-and-forker1839
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii/1 A Moucher, manduco.
mouching n. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating heartily or greedily
mouching1607
engorgement1611
engorging1611
demolition1722
tucking in1810
brosier1907
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. C3 Clo: O poore shrimpe, how art thou falne away for want of mouching?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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