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单词 mugging
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muggingn.1

Brit. /ˈmʌɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməɡɪŋ/
Forms: 1800s– muggin (English regional), 1800s– mugging.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mug v.4, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < mug v.4 + -ing suffix1.
1. Originally slang. The action or an instance of assaulting, beating, or fighting a person; (now usually) spec. the action or an instance of assaulting and robbing a person, esp. in a public place.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person
threshingOE
sousingc1580
rib-roast1595
basting1599
swingeing1603
cuffing1610
lamming1611
rib-roasting1613
mauling1621
pinking1637
drubbing1650
diverberation1651
verberation1661
trimming1675
rib1699
thrashing1720
dousing1721
fagging1746
bumping1751
dusting1799
clapperclawing1806
milling1806
hiding1809
punishment1811
doing1814
bethumping1831
mugging1846
jacketing1850
frailing1851
pasting1851
towelling1851
tanning1863
fum-fum1885
ribbing1894
paddywhack1898
tanking1905
beating-up1915
shellacking1931
sloshing1931
clobbering1948
twatting1963
duffing-up1967
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > attacking and robbing
mugging1846
garrotte1852
garrotting1858
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 75 I knows that 'ere whitehouse warment..would chaff—and you knows I'm soon shirty, and then we should have a mugging match.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 131 I gave him a sound mugging, he was so chappy.
a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) 139 ‘To receive a muggin’ is to be beaten.
1942 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 17/1 The police were..tracking down three known..muggers who..had received suspended sentences in a mugging case.
1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 June 2/2 The increase in petty thieving, in ‘muggings’ of night-time strollers, and in prostitution.
1971 B. Malamud Tenants 64 Bugsy is shot..in Catshit Alley by two white pigs who had cornered him there after a mugging.
1991 Business Traveller Jan. 33/2 Atlanta is the mugging capital of America, according to FBI statistics.
2. slang (originally Australian and New Zealand). The action of kissing, fondling, or petting. Cf. mug v.4 2.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > action of kissing
kissinga1300
bassing1546
lip-labour1582
bussing1583
smouching1583
slavering1607
lip-work1631
suaviation1656
deosculation1658
osculation1658
bussa1721
basiation1879
kissage1886
mugging1890
oscularity1926
snogging1945
smash-mouth1965
1890 Bull-ant (Melbourne) 28 Aug. 17/3 B. M. was especially favoured with the mugging and kissing which M. E. (a new arrival) bestowed so freely on certain young ladies.
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xxiii. 271 I hate mugging and petting and that sort of thing... Petting is jazzing love; and I hate it.
1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks xxvii. 242 But Deb had never kissed her mother, as she had seen children in the township kiss and cuddle up to their mothers... Her mother did not encourage ‘mugging’, as she called it.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 83 Mugging,..making love.
1983 Sunday Tel. Mag. 11 Sept. Mugging in Ireland is slang for kissing.
3. U.S. slang. The action of photographing a person's face, esp. for police or other official records. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > types or methods generally
microphotography1857
pistolgraphy1860
portrait photography1864
pistolography1866
photochronography1887
snap-work1889
gallery-practice1891
photoreproduction1892
telephotography1892
Kodakry1893
fuzzyism1894
mugging1899
action photography1905
press photography1910
trick photography1913
Kodachrome1915
panchromatism1919
photo reporting1935
photojournalism1938
photo-reportage1939
strobe1949
streak photography1950
satellite photography1954
digital photography1972
time-lapse1975
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 389 In some cities suspicious characters are arrested on general principles and immediately photographed by the police authorities. Such towns are called ‘muggin' joints’, and the police authorities ‘muggin' fiends’.
1912 A. B. Reeve Poisoned Pen (1913) ii. 58 An hour later, at headquarters, after the pedigrees had been taken, the ‘mugging’ done..O'Connor led the way into his private office.
1912 A. C. Train Courts, Criminals & Camorra 5Mugging’ was all right, so long as you ‘mugged’ the right persons.
4. The action of putting on or making faces, esp. in front of a camera or an audience; grimacing; an instance of this. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > miming by making faces
mugging1926
1926 Amer. Mercury Dec. 465/1 A likeable bit, in which he turns in some very funny mugging when his lips work longingly as she coos a pop song right under his beezer.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 317/2 Mugging, motion picture acting.
1961 Times 25 Apr. 20/4 Grimaces and gestures straight out of silent films, properly deserving the name ‘mugging’.
1968 Listener 25 July 124/2 Paul Daneman made a promising start as Higgins, but dwindled into a kind of a verbal mugging.
1985 D. Gifford Golden Age Radio 278/2 Comedians..soon played up by silently mugging or wearing funny clothes to boost the laughs even more.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

muggingn.2

Brit. /ˈmʌɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməɡɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mug v.5, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < mug v.5 + -ing suffix1.
Now rare.
The action of mug v.5; hard or concentrated studying; an instance of this. Usually with up.
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society > education > learning > study > [noun] > diligent or hard study
studiousness1530
sapping1821
swot1850
grind1857
sapa1862
swotting1873
mugging1901
groise1913
1901 W. H. Lawson et al. Winchester Coll. Notions 131 To be ‘up to’ a don means to be taken in mugging by a don.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 179 ‘Swotting’ or ‘mugging up’ is only considered good form if a person is on the point of taking an exam.
1960 Guardian 15 July 6/6 Hasty muggings-up and regurgitations of fact.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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