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- mucker
noun, Brit
A heavy fall; esp. in phr. to come (or go) a mucker, to come a cropper, to come to grief. (1851 —) .
G. Mitchell I like old Jimmy boy and I wouldn't want to see him come a mucker (1974).
[From mucknoun , dung, dirt + -er; from the notion of falling into muck.] - mucker
noun, US
A coarse, vulgar person. (1884 —) .
F. Scott Fitzgerald Why is it that the pick of young Englishmen from Oxford and Cambridge go into politics and in the USA we leave it to the muckers (1920).
[Perh. from German Mucker sulky person, gloomy fanatic or hypocrite (cf. obs. US sense, fanatic or hypocrite).] - mucker
noun, Brit
A friend, companion, mate. (1947 —) .
M. Woodhouse 'Is that my old mucker?' said Bottle. 'None other,' I said (1972).
[Prob. from to muck in to share tasks, etc. equally.]
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| mucking, mucky-muck, mud |
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