different between labourer vs mucker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?.??/

Noun

labourer (plural labourers)

1. Britain standard spelling of laborer.

Anagrams

• rubeolar

French

Etymology

From Middle French labourer, from Old French laborer, borrowed from Latin lab?r?re, present active infinitive of lab?r?. Replaced the Old French arer (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.bu.?e/

Verb

labourer

1. (transitive) to plough

Conjugation

Derived terms

• labourage
• laboureur

Further reading

• “labourer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French laborer.

Verb

labourer

1. to work (to do work); to labor
2. to manufacture; to make (in a work context)

Descendants

• French: labourer

References

• labourer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Etymology

muck +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

mucker (plural muckers)

1. (Britain, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.

   Fancy a pint, my old mucker?

2. (slang, British Army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.

   Go and talk to your mucker!

3. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
4. (archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.

Usage notes

• Mucker, in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.

Synonyms

• (friend): See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• go a mucker
• muckerish
• muckerism

Translations

Verb

mucker (third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

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