mucidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmjuːsɪd/

形容詞

mucid (comparative more mucid, superlative most mucid)

1. (now rare) Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
   • 1913, Bernard Capes, Bag and Baggage, The Soft Seraphic Screen:

     the incessant flurried movement of the flexuous lips, the little spasmodic cough, the mucid vacancy of the shell-fish-like eyes with their inflamed rims, pointed, significantly enough to discrimination, to one clear explanation of her aspect and condition.

2. (figurative, now rare) Rotten, bad, worthless.

派生語

参照

• “mucid, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “mucid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.