单词 | muck-shoveller |
释义 | > as lemmasmuck-shoveller muck-shoveller n. (a) Australian slang, a tin miner (rare); (b) a farmhand employed in menial tasks.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > muck-shoveller muck-shoveller1945 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. v. 101 Muck-shoveller, a tin miner. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. 105/3 Of these 32 [farmers], 21 simply wanted a muck-shoveller. < as lemmas |
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