mullockern.
/ˈmʌləkə/, U.S. /ˈmələkər/, Irish English /ˈmʌləkər/, Australian English /ˈmʌləkə/, New Zealand English /ˈmʌləkə/ Australian, New Zealand and Irish English.
A person who clears away refuse in a mine. Also depreciative: any manual labourer; a careless or inept labourer.
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1856 Bendigo (Victoria) Advertiser 13 Dec. Recent news..has just reached the Shanghai and Macao ‘mullockers’—(I cannot call them diggers)—of the utter extermination of their wives, families, relatives, and friends.
1901 Thames Star (Waikato, N.Z.) 2 May When he worked in the Waihi Company's mine he..did not know of any mullocker receiving less than 8s per day.
1950 G. Farwell Surf Music 94 A big-shouldered mullocker stood in front of him. ‘Where're you to, mate?’
1976 T. Murphy On the Inside (1989) 205 They're only a bunch of mullackers... Aren't they?
1982 M. Walker Making Do 84 What was taken out from underground and processed, the residue, had to be put back to fill it up again, and I was one of those that helped in that department... I was a mullocker.
1990 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 16 Oct. 7 When appreciated by the boss, a Limerick docker could be described as a ‘mullocker non-pareil’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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n.1856- to catch napping
- to catch off
- to fathom about
- to fathom into
- to fathom together
- to fatten into
- to fatten out
- to fatten up
- to fault a person with or that
- to fault down or through
- to fault it
- to fault with or that
- to faultiness
- to fawn on, upon
- to fawn upon
- to fay in
- to fay upon long
- to feague away
- to feague it away
- to fear flee etc the face of
- to fear flee from the face of
- to fear no colours
- to fear of
- to fear of rarely at
- to fear offence