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单词 to foul up
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to foul up
to foul up
1.
a. intransitive. Of a mechanism: to become clogged or obstructed.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > make a closure or obstruction > be or become stopped up
stop1575
choke1616
to foul up1874
plug1902
gunge1976
1874 T. Newbigging Gas Manager's Handbk. (ed. 2) 49 The first cost of the filling [of the Livesey scrubber] is greater than when coke or other material is employed, but it possesses the marked advantage of not fouling up, and will rarely or never need renewing.
1960 E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipm. & Navigation xii. 146 Tendency of a two-stroke to ‘oil up’ or to ‘foul up’.
2014 Commercial Vehicle (Nexis) 21 Oct. The OEMs typically install a butterfly restrictor in the exhaust manifold, which is easily removed when it fouls up with soot.
b. transitive. To make (something) dirty or polluted; spec. to clog or obstruct (a mechanism).
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1880 Pet Stock Pigeon & Poultry Bull. May 35/2 The hen soon fouls up the spot where the coop is placed.
1882 J. W. Collins in Fishermen's Own Bk. 189 [He] was busy aft by the wheel-box clearing the log-line, or some other small gear which had been fouled up by the water washing it about deck.
1999 C. Grimshaw Provocation iii. 50 Round here we don't like trespassers. Trash. Fouling up our land.
2001 L. A. Windmill Gentleman Jim (2011) vi. 79 It was so cold that the oil had congealed and the mechanism was fouled up with sand.
2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Originally U.S. Military slang.Often, esp. in early use, as a euphemism for to fuck up (see to fuck up 1 at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1).
a. transitive. To ruin or spoil (something); to mess up, botch, bungle. Also (esp. in early use): to confuse or muddle (a person or animal). Cf. slightly earlier fouled-up adj. 1a.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle
botch1530
bungle1530
mumble1588
muddle1605
mash1642
bumble?1719
to fall through ——1726
fuck1776
blunder1805
to make a mull of1821
bitch1823
mess1823
to make a mess of1834
smudge1864
to muck up1875
boss1887
to make balls of1889
duff1890
foozle1892
bollocks1901
fluff1902
to make a muck of1903
bobble1908
to ball up1911
jazz1914
boob1915
to make a hash of1920
muff1922
flub1924
to make a hat of1925
to ass up1932
louse1934
screw1938
blow1943
to foul up1943
eff1945
balls1947
to make a hames of1947
to arse up1951
to fuck up1967
dork1969
sheg1981
bodge1984
1943 R. R. Rea Let. 13 Aug. in Wings of Gold (1987) 76 I fouled up a navigation quiz completely.
1944 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 22 Dec. 25/1 It is the minor details due to a lack of practice perhaps more than anything else that are fouling me up.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye ix. 80 Boy, I really fouled that up.
1990 P. Cornwell Post-mortem (1998) x. 239 Nothing could foul up an investigation like a multijurisdictional effort.
2005 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 15 Mar. We don't want to foul the whole thing up because we haven't done our job right.
b. intransitive. To blunder; to make a serious error; to go wrong, fail.
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1944 New Yorker 6 May 26/1 Look how we fouled up on maneuvers.
1950 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 13 Feb. 4/4 For someone that is in the public eye she has really fouled up.
1992 Spectator 19 Dec. 33/1 He fouled up several times, and each time he got more upset.
2012 N.Y. Times Blogs (Nexis) 3 July Somebody, or a bunch of somebodies, fouled up big time, though it's not clear if blame lies with poll workers or with the police.
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