different between mucker vs hucker

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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English

Etymology

huck +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

hucker (plural huckers)

1. Someone who hucks (any meaning)
2. A trade ship.

Anagrams

• chuker

Westrobothnian

Verb

hucker (preterite huckrä)

1. neigh, of people and animals
2. cry, whimper