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mucket

English

Etymology

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Noun

mucket (plural muckets)

  1. Any of various species of mussels, especially those in the Lampsilis genus.

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mucker

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

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