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mudsill

/muhd-sil/US // ˈmʌdˌsɪl //

泥丸,泥潭,泥沙,泥丸子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.

Examples

  • The mudsill Sumner was too unpolished to think of clubbing the brains out of the gentleman Brooks.

  • The Negro is the mudsill of the social and industrial South to-day.

  • The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.

  • We push below this mudsill the derelicts and half-men, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy!

  • A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?