单词 | mukluk |
释义 | muklukn. (a) A high boot worn by the Inuit and Yupik peoples, traditionally made of seal or caribou skin. (b) A winter boot with a heavy rubber sole and a high fabric upper, usually with laces. Also more fully mukluk boot. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > made from specific material > boots buckskin1481 oker1538 gumboots1850 mukluk1898 valenki1943 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > types of jockey-boot1683 top-boot1768 Cossack boot1805 wellington boot1815 Hessian boot1834 jockey1851 Napoleon1853 Napoleon boot1860 jockey-leg1862 larrigan1886 kamik1891 mukluk1898 cruiser1902 jockey-back1909 1898 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 8 Dec. 5/4 Her parkee, made of Caribou, it is a lovely fit, And she's all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit. 1901 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 56 We stop on our way..and buy a pair of mucklucks or Esquimaux seal boots. They are water-tight, clumsy, evil-smelling, [etc.]. 1913 R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone 118 Then it's down to chewing muclucs, to the water you can eat, To fish you bolt with nose held in your hand. 1947 Chicago Tribune 11 Dec. 20/3 He was presented with..a pair of mukluk boots made to order for Paul Bunyan. 1962 W. Noyce To Unknown Mountain v. 54 Unable to fit his vast feet into any boots but a pair of canvas mucklucks. 1991 People 25 Nov. 64/2 He even refused warm clothing, gloves, and insulated mukluk boots so that others could have them. Compounds mukluk telegraph n. U.S. a means of rapidly disseminating information, spec. by word of mouth; cf. bush telegraph n. at bush n.1 Compounds 2, moccasin telegraph n. at moccasin n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1945 Alaska Sportsman 11 33/1 Through the good graces of Cho-ak, and through the mukluk telegraph, news concerning me had spread to all the village. 1981 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 26 Apr. 6 What you said at the recent Foreman's meeting that was held in Fairbanks has travelled north, south, east and west via Mukluk Telegraph. 2000 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 25 Dec. 6 b Saint Mary's Mission closed in the mid-1980s. By then, though, the mukluk telegraph had spread the word about Operation Santa Claus. mukluk wireless n. U.S. = mukluk telegraph n. ΚΠ 1945 Alaska Sportsman 11 16/2 It had been reported by mukluk wireless that a celebrated New York physician was aboard. 1966 F. Dufresne My Way was North 44 News of the roundup had spread with incredible speed from mouth to ear—Mukluk Wireless, they called it—from one fish camp and village to the next. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1898 |
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