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单词 muckety-muck
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muckety-muckn.

Brit. /ˌmʌkᵻtɪˈmʌk/, U.S. /ˌməkədiˈmək/
Forms: 1900s– muckademuck, 1900s– muck-de-muck, 1900s– muckety-muck, 1900s– muckity-muck, 1900s– muck-ti-muck, 1900s– mucty-muck.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: muckamuck n.2
Etymology: Alteration of muckamuck n.2; compare -ety suffix and earlier high muckety-muck n.
U.S. colloquial.
A self-important person; = high muck-a-muck n. Cf. high muckety-muck n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person
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1927 Lima (Ohio) News 26 May 13/4 I helped him get the dope on the high society muckety-mucks.
1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo xiii. 214 At that time we all thought you had to be a music conservatory man or some kind of a big muckity-muck to play the trumpet.
1971 O. Bleeck Thief who painted Sunlight (1972) iii. 36 Who's to complain?.. The big-shot muckety-mucks who're playing high-stakes poker, and one of them the head of a big charity outfit?
1992 Spy May 20/1 A PLO ambassador was confronted by an Arab counterespionage muckety-muck.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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