mullock

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rubbish, waste matter. UK,dialectal,uncountable,usually
  2. Mining waste or ore processing waste:; Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft. Australia,New-Zealand,uncountable,usually
  3. Mining waste or ore processing waste:; Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted. Australia,New-Zealand,uncountable,usually
    — 1875, New Zealand House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Volume 2, page 30, The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during working.
  4. Nonsense, rubbish. uncountable,usually
  5. A mess; the result of a blunder. UK,Yorkshire,dialectal,uncountable,usually
    — For when they saw awr Mary, / They made a mullock on it, / For they thowt 'at all them flaars / Had been put on Mary's bonnet.
动词 v.
  1. To clear waste material out of a mine. transitive

词形变化

mullocks plural mullocks present,singular,third-person mullocking participle,present mullocked participle,past mullocked past

词汇关系

衍生词
mullocky poke mullock

词源

词源 1
From mull + -ock.
词源 2
From mull + -ock.
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