单词 | mugging |
释义 | muggingn.1 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 5 ‘Mugging’ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 Now rare. The action of mug v.5; hard or concentrated studying; an instance of this. Usually with up. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11846n.21901 |
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