| 单词 | to muck about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto muck about to muck about 1. intransitive. colloquial. To behave in an aimless or desultory way (with); to act with no definite purpose or result; to act frivolously or teasingly.In quot. 1856 about is a preposition rather than an adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1856 H. Phillips Jrnl. 26 Sept. (typescript) 41 Cutting firewood and mucking about the house. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 188 Our Colonel..mucks about in 'orspital where nothing does no good. 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 659 He would be climbing trees with Joan, ‘mucking about’ in the boats with Joan. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 152 We been mucking about and mucking about, and got nowhere. 1962 in K. Lorenz King Solomon's Ring Pref. p. xii Lorenz is a member of what is sometimes condescendingly called the ‘mucking about with minnows’ school of scientific inquiry. 1985 D. Lucie Progress i. ii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business (1991) 103 Listen, I ain't got time to muck about. Get your stuff. 2. intransitive. English regional (chiefly south-eastern). To work hard; to work up a sweat. Now rare.Cf. muck sweat n. ΚΠ 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) She's mucking about from morning to night. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Kentish Dial. 105 He's most times mucking about somewhere's or another. < as lemmas |
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