muckern.1
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ 1. A person who removes dung, esp. a cleaner of stables (cf. byre-mucker n. at byre n.1 Compounds 2) (now rare). Formerly also: †a person who prepares soil for planting, a gardener (obsolete).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who
mucker1229
raker1327
canel raker?1518
masser-scourer?1518
scavenger1530
sweep-street1553
channel raker1575
broom-man1592
broom-boy1593
gutter-master1607
rake-kennel1707
fulyie man1826
road sweeper1832
crossing-sweeper1841
street orderly1848
orderly1851
scavager1851
scaffy1853
broomer1857
sweep1858
roader1883
1229 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 114 (MED) Ralph le Mukere.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 A Muker [1483 BL Add. 89074 Mukker], eruderista, olitor.
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 763 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) Hen pluker, closet muker, hous cukker.
1813 A. Cunningham Songs 73 An ewe-milking maiden, and mucker of the byre.
1923 Banffshire Jrnl. 13 Feb. 2 The cattleman there had to be much more than a wheeler of turnips and a ‘mucker of byres’.
1990 N. De Mille Gold Coast ii. vi. 51 Susan..will eventually inherit enough money to get herself a full-time stable mucker.
2. A person who hoards wealth, a miser; = muckerer n. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
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hoarder?a1513
warner1513
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snudge1545
cob1548
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mucker1567
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gromwell-gainer1588
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scrib1600
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morkin-gnoff1602
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clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
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money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Hvj What all, wherefore so gredelie The moneie mucker carkes?
1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros vii. xxv. 172 Fye filthy muckers tis not so, Ye erre, God is not goold I know.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 107 Mucker, a miserly person... ‘A fine old word, that I do not remember to have met with in other counties.’
3. colloquial.
a. A person who spoils, bungles, or ruins things; an ineffectual or incompetent person.
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1823 R. Southey Let. 24 Dec. in New Lett. (1965) II. 258 Poor Alfred is the wrecklin of the family, and sorry I am to say that he is as much like a mucker as poor Wilber himself.
1901 F. Norris Octopus i. v. 207 I want you to forget about that—this morning, and not think I am a galoot and a mucker.
a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) xiii. 128 Harricus considered him rather a mucker of his business affairs.
b. U.S. University slang. A young person from the town, as distinct from a member of a college or university. Later also: an inferior or despised student, esp. one regarded as unsportsmanlike or dishonourable. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to university
townsman1570
oppidana1696
snobc1796
snobbitec1796
townie1843
mucker1874
townee1888
1874 Magenta (Harvard Univ.) 24 Apr. 62/2 The College ‘boys’, who occupy, in the depths of the reporter's mind, an indefinite position somewhere between a ‘mucker’ and a Prussian count.
1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 75 On the first corner of Harvard Street were stationed three or four boys (the occasionally useful Cambridge muckers) employed as vedettes.
1900 Overland Monthly Dec. 582 It would seem as though he had relegated to the class of ‘muckers’ everybody whose B.A. did not happen to come from the college which he honors.
1911 Z. Grey Young Pitcher xii. 144 You are a crack ball-player, but you don't know what college spirit means. You're a mucker!
1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 24 Sept. (1969) 186 Presently a smallish mob of muckers..materialized, & their führer-commissar suggested a friendly snowfight.
1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes iii. 55 During college he had pulled a genteel oar on the University of Pennsylvania crew until, at one regatta, a Princeton spectator had shouted, ‘All the muckers go to Penn!’
c. Chiefly U.S. More generally: an unrefined, troublesome, or rowdy person; (gen.) any contemptible person.In some contexts not easily distinguished from mucker n.4
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun]
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clumpertonc1534
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lout1548
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clout-shoe1563
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clunch1602
clod1607
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
clota1637
hoyde1636
Hottentot1710
yahoo1726
polisson1866
mucker1884
bohunk1908
hairy ape1931
cafone1949
trog1956
oafo1959
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person
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rustic1600
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Grobian1621
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clodhopper1699
roughhead1726
indelicate1741
vulgarian1809
snob1838
vulgarist1847
yahoo1861
cave-dweller1865
polisson1866
mucker1884
caveman1907
wampus1912
yobbo1922
yenta1923
yob1927
rude1946
cafone1949
no-neck1961
ocker1971
1884 J. Fiske Let. 26 Apr. (1940) 506 Some horrid little Muckers contrived to get at it and turn off the gas.
1891 Cycl. Temperance & Prohibition (U.S.) 269/2 The saloon-keepers then resolved to make ‘the muckers take their own medicine’, and insisted that the Mayor should enforce the Sunday law against ‘common labor’.
1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 35 He used to class himself and me together as ‘us gentlemen’, in contrast to ‘them muckers’, meaning my colleagues.
1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 219/1 Some mucker hurled an empty beer-bottle at the minister and laid open his face.
1946 H. L. Mencken Diary 20 June (1989) 417 They will get plenty of nominees once the news gets out, and my guess is that it will go to Louis Bromfield or some other such mucker.
1977 A. Cooke Six Men vi. 184 He had nothing but contempt for men who, in spurning their father's title, adopted a mucker's pose to make a show of their common humanity.
d. British (originally Military). A close companion or friend; a person with whom one regularly socializes or teams up (cf. to muck in at muck v.1 Phrasal verbs). Frequently as a form of address.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend
friendOE
wineOE
fellowa1225
friendmana1250
lovera1275
amic1330
gossipc1390
mikea1400
ally1406
amykec1450
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favourite1590
palc1770
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amigo1813
amico1820
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pally1863
tillicum1869
nigger1884
buddy1895
paxc1900
mutual1901
righto1908
segotia1917
bud1924
palsy1930
palsy-walsy1932
buddy-buddy1943
winger1943
mucker1947
main man1956
goombah1968
gabba1970
money1982
1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War vii. v. 239 What's the griff, mucker?
1963 ‘R. Erskine’ Passion Flowers in Italy v. 56 Well, my father was at Magdalen, but all my muckers seemed to be flocking to the House, so I thought I might as well go there too.
1972 M. Woodhouse Mama Doll ix. 120 ‘Is that my old mucker?’ said Bottle. ‘None other,’ I said.
1998 Smash Hits 22 May 16/1 Pete's also looking forward to the World Music Awards in Monaco on May 6, where he'll get to hook up with his old Aussie mucker Kylie.
4. Chiefly North American.
a. A person who manually removes excavated material from a mine, quarry, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > labourer or unskilled
labourera1393
laboura1425
pioneer1543
hand1551
heaver1587
yard boy1776
son of toil1779
spalpeen1780
hacker1784
khalasi1785
tiger1865
cafone1872
mucker1899
mazdoor1937
bracero1946
manamba1959
nkuba kyeyo1991
1899 Harper's Weekly 20 May 498/1 [The] Company..paid $3. for miners and $2.50 for ‘muckers’, or underground laborers.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 24 The rawjawed teameos and muckers..who built that railroad got little or no hard cash.
1965 S. G. Lawrence 40 Years on Yukon Telegraph iv. 23 A mucker's duties are simply to shovel and wheel out rock, and in those days on a wheelbarrow.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 163 Within a week he found work as a mucker, shoveling ore into ore carts.
b. A small excavator or digger.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
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driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
1916 C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 21 Twenty men stand watching the muckers. Stabbing the sides of the ditch..for the new gas mains.
1956 Fatal Accidents (Ontario Dept. Mines) Apr. 2 The mucker was hoisted clear of the bottom timber by 10 feet, to where it might normally have been anchored.
1981 J. May Many-colored Land i. ii. 26 Small robot crawlers and muckers..could make minor repairs when the planetary crust shifted in a common Class One incident.
5. Ice Hockey (originally Canadian). A person who plays in an aggressive, physical manner, esp. an aggressive, hard-working player of only moderate talent. Cf. muck v.1 8.
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1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. f1 He is no stylist on the ice, no flashy skater. He is, to use the jargon, [a] mucker.
1991 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. c6/1 Torrey has ignored players from the offense-oriented Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Instead, the Islanders have drafted too many Western Hockey League muckers.
1999 Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 1 Oct. s1 Some hockey players are checkers, defensive specialists. Or muckers, willing to go into the corners with an attitude.
Compounds
mucker-in n. a person who ‘mucks in’; a person prepared to do any kind of work, to pull his or her weight, or to cooperate or share with others on equal terms.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [noun] > conjoint assistance > one who
coadjutorc1430
co-helper1549
coadjutant1728
coadjutator1774
mucker-in1942
1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iv. 83 When a girl first goes to a factory she may be a ‘mucker in’ and have to turn her hand to anything.
1972 Guardian 18 Feb. 14/1 A raconteur..good value at a gathering where he knows his audience, a mucker-in, a natural wit.
1996 Guardian 1 Mar. i. 13/7 He was a great mucker-in and as such soon earned respect from those younger and greener as well as his elders and betters.
mucker pose n. U.S. an aggressively coarse uncivilized, anti-intellectual attitude affected by a well-educated and cultured person.
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1921 P. Curtiss in Harper's Mag. Oct. 663/1 The mucker pose is that curious state of mind which induces well-bred, intelligent people to disclaim superciliously any refinement, education, or natural good taste.
1960 H. S. Commager in Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 Sept. 86 We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education.
1992 San Francisco Chron. 12 Feb. a8 Why have an Education President who cusses like a preacher? Why the tough guy mucker pose?
mucker-up n. = mucker-upper n.
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1994 Chapman No. 77. 54 The hymn in her heart was to motherhood. ‘Shove off interpreters and muckers-up in general.’
mucker-upper n. a person who spoils, bungles, or ruins things; a person prone to clumsiness, foolish mistakes, etc.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle > perpetrator of
mucker-upper1942
mucker-up1994
1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 9 She's a proper mucker-upper though—she'll go and catch the wrong bus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
Muckern.2
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ derogatory. Now historical.
A member of a Christian theosophical sect active in Königsberg, East Prussia, in the early 19th cent., which followed the teaching of Johann Schönherr (1770–1826) and his convert Johann Ebel (1784–1861).Schönherr claimed to establish a harmony between Christian revelation and the evidences of natural science. The sect's concern with mortification of the flesh, esp. in relation to sexuality, gave rise to charges of immorality and the prosecution of its leaders during legal hearings in 1835–41.
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1842 S. Laing Notes of Traveller viii. 221 The Muckers are a sect who combine lewdness with religion. The name, Mucker, is said to be derived from a local or sporting term, indicating the rutting season of hares.
1868 W. H. Dixon Spiritual Wives I. v. 49 Writers who wish to treat these people with respect, speak of them as Ebelians... But in common life, they are known from the Rhine to the Baltic,..as the Mucker, and only as the Mucker..a cant word, of dubious origin.
1868 W. H. Dixon Spiritual Wives I. xxi. 224 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. is known to have lived a Pietist, and is said to have died a Mucker.
1875 Cinicinnati Daily Gaz. 22 Jan. 4/1 Is he [sc. Bismarck] about to interpose diplomatic remonstrances, or adopt even sterner policy against Puritanic ‘muckers’?
1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 182 There are the refined and aristocratic Muckers in East Prussia, with their ritual of exhibitionism and long-drawn sexual confessions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
muckern.3
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ British colloquial.
1. A heavy fall, a cropper. to come (also go) a mucker: to suffer a serious fall; (figurative) to come to grief, to ruin oneself. Cf. to come a cropper at cropper n.3
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief
misfareOE
miswendOE
misferec1275
misspeeda1387
miscarryc1387
mischieve?a1400
to catch copper1530
to lose one's seatc1540
mischief1598
to bu(r)st one's boiler1824
to come to grief1850
to come (also go) a mucker1851
to come (fall, get) a cropper1858
mucker1862
to go or be up the flume1865
to come undone1899
to play smash1903
to come to a sticky end1904
to come unstuck1911
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end
losec888
fallOE
forlesea1225
perishc1275
spilla1300
to go to wreche13..
to go to the gatec1330
to go to lostc1374
miscarryc1387
quenchc1390
to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400
mischieve?a1400
tinea1400
to go to the devilc1405
bursta1450
untwindc1460
to make shipwreck1526
to go to (the) pot1531
to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547
wrake1570
wracka1586
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
to lie in the dusta1591
mischief1598
to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599
shipwreck1607
suffera1616
unravel1643
to fall off1684
tip (over) the perch1699
to do away with1769
to go to the dickens1833
collapse1838
to come (also go) a mucker1851
mucker1862
to go up1864
to go to squash1889
to go (to) stramash1910
to go for a burton1941
to meet one's Makera1978
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > severe fall
breakneck1563
plumper1810
purl1825
mucker1851
cropper1858
burster1863
smasher1875
crumpler1883
smeller1923
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal > severely or violently
pitchc1325
throwc1325
stetec1330
pick1848
to come (also go) a mucker1904
to come a stinker1923
1851 C. Kingsley Lett. (1877) I. 349 The old horse..earned great honour by leaping in and out of the Loddon; only four more doing it, and one receiving a mucker.
1876 J. Payn Halves II. xiv. 17 ‘I should make a point of..apologising for our unfortunate mistake.’ ‘Yes, by Jove, a regular mucker,’ muttered John.
1904 V. L. Whitechurch Canon in Resid. ii. 36 I came a mucker over the bank on my third run.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. vi. 41 But for you, old girl, I might have gone a holy mucker myself.
1974 G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah xii. 154 I like old Jimmy boy and I wouldn't want to see him come a mucker.
2. Originally English regional. A hopeless mess or muddle. to make a mucker of: to bungle; = to make a muck of at muck n.1 Phrases 5. in (also all of) a mucker: in a state of confusion or mess.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder
feery-fary1535
puddle1587
bauchle1600
vertigo1702
whemmel1817
mull1821
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scrimmage1852
embroilment1856
hash-up1860
brangle1865
mucker1867
unplight1876
car wreck1877
mix1882
mess-up1902
stirabout1905
pot mess1914
boorach1928
balls-up1929
muck-up1930
balls1938
box1941
Chinese fire drill1943
snafu1943
foul-up1944
screw-up1950
snarl-up1960
tiswas1960
bumble-bath1965
clusterfuck1969
headfuck1983
car crash1992
katogo1994
dumpster fire2008
1867 Cornish Tales Var. Authors 139 When they do try to go above other people they are sure to maake a mucker of it.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 292 Mucker,..a state of dirt and confusion.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 266 I'm in a terrible mucker, as th' owd mon said i' th' pilpit.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 152 I know I should mek a mucker o' this job.
1916 D. Hankey et al. Faith or Fear? xxvi. 244 I'm afraid I should make an awful mucker of it. I shouldn't know what to teach.
1924 M. Baring C xviii. 214 I'm afraid that Malone will make a mucker of life.
1930 T. V. Shaw Gloss. Black Country Words & Phrases 11 Mucker, confusion; as in the phrase ‘all of a mucker’.
2009 M. Eccles Broken Music (2011) x. 106 We was all of a mucker at the station what with the war starting and orders coming from here, there and the next place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
muckern.4
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ euphemistic.
= fucker n. (as a term of abuse).Often a literary device to avoid the need to print the word fucker: cf. muck v.2
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
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slimec1315
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jordan1377
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Poor John1589
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Tartar1600
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windfucker?1602
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tim1612
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soor1848
b1851
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molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
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fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
1929 R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. i. 263 Does the old mucker think we're going to run away?
1942 Penguin New Writing 15 19 Suddenly old Bob says: ‘I lost my kit, Cockney.’ Silly mucker!
1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 38 I thought there was twelve hundred muckers in this raid—where's t' other eleven hundred and ninety-nine?
1993 F. Cooper I believe in Angels (BNC) 7 Bleeders, buggers and sods they may be before they arrive but, once they're there, it's her lap that they always land on. ‘Ain't had no breakfast have you, you little mucker, eh?’ she crooned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
muckerv.1
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ Now English regional.† 1. transitive. To hoard (money, goods); frequently with up. Also intransitive. Obsolete.† 2. intransitive. To toil, to work hard. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly of [verb (transitive)] > hoard up as miser
mucka1413
muckera1425
miser1715
rathole1948
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > hoard
hoardc1000
cofferc1394
moocha1400
sparec1400
muckera1425
hive1574
pose1866
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 1375 Trowe ye a coveytous or a wrecche, That blameth love and halt of it despit, That of Tho pens that he kan mokre and kecche Was evere yit yyeven hym swich delit As is in love, in o poynt, in som plit?
1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders (new ed.) sig. Hvv Nygardy..hourdeth and muckereth vp: he can not tell for whome.
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 92 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxvii In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.
1604 G. Babington Comf. Notes: Exod. i. (Exod.) xvi. 16 Note how carefull the Lord is to haue men depend vpon his prouidence,..and not wretchedly and despairefully to mucker vp what shall never doe them good.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Mucker, to scramble for money; to hoard up; to get or save meanly: a word..still retained in conversation.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
sweatc897
swingc1000
swinkOE
travailc1275
carka1350
tavec1350
to-swinkc1386
labourc1390
byswenke?a1400
tevelc1400
toilc1400
pingle1511
carp1522
moilc1529
turmoil1548
mucker1566
tug1619
tuggle1650
fatigue1695
hammer1755
fag1772
bullock1888
slog1888
to sweat one's guts out1890
schlep1937
slug1943
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Av And thou that didste disdayne To lyue and leade the Lawyers lyfe Shalt mucker in the grounde.
3. English regional (chiefly western).
a. transitive. To make dirty. Now rare.
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1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 511 The clothes were muckered in the wash tub.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 113 Mucker, to besmear with dirt.
b. intransitive. To be dirty; to behave in a slovenly or purposeless manner; to waste time. Now rare.
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Mucker, to be dirty. West.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Come, naï, what bin yô doin' theer, muckerin?
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire I'll ha' none o' them wenches muckerin about my milk-pons.
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muckerv.2
/ˈmʌkə/, U.S. /ˈməkər/ colloquial. Now rare.† 1. intransitive. To come to grief, to fail. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief
misfareOE
miswendOE
misferec1275
misspeeda1387
miscarryc1387
mischieve?a1400
to catch copper1530
to lose one's seatc1540
mischief1598
to bu(r)st one's boiler1824
to come to grief1850
to come (also go) a mucker1851
to come (fall, get) a cropper1858
mucker1862
to go or be up the flume1865
to come undone1899
to play smash1903
to come to a sticky end1904
to come unstuck1911
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end
losec888
fallOE
forlesea1225
perishc1275
spilla1300
to go to wreche13..
to go to the gatec1330
to go to lostc1374
miscarryc1387
quenchc1390
to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400
mischieve?a1400
tinea1400
to go to the devilc1405
bursta1450
untwindc1460
to make shipwreck1526
to go to (the) pot1531
to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547
wrake1570
wracka1586
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
to lie in the dusta1591
mischief1598
to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599
shipwreck1607
suffera1616
unravel1643
to fall off1684
tip (over) the perch1699
to do away with1769
to go to the dickens1833
collapse1838
to come (also go) a mucker1851
mucker1862
to go up1864
to go to squash1889
to go (to) stramash1910
to go for a burton1941
to meet one's Makera1978
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. xiv. 173 By-the-bye Welter has muckered; you know that by this time.
2. transitive. To ruin (one's chances); to mishandle, to bungle.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] > cause to fail
bringc1175
abort?1548
foil1548
ruin1593
to throw out1821
to put a person's pot on1864
mucker1869
collapse1883
to fix (someone's) wagon1951
1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ O.V.H. (1870) 60 It's enough to mucker any chance he has.
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber xiii. 180 I was deuced sorry he went and muckered the whole show like that.
3. transitive. To fritter away.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)]
forspendc893
scatter1154
dispend1303
waste1340
misspendc1390
miswastec1400
consumec1425
waste1474
profund1527
lasha1535
prodige1538
lavish1542
to play away1562
riot1566
embezzle1578
dilapidate1590
squander1593
confound1598
to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600
prodigalize1611
profuse1611
squander1611
paddle1616
bezzle1617
to run out of ——1622
to piss away1628
prodigal1628
decoct1629
to bangle (away)1632
debauch1632
deboise1632
to fribble away1633
to fool out1635
to run outa1640
to fiddle away1667
slattera1681
dissipate1682
to play off1693
duck-and-drake1700
liquidate1702
sparkle away1703
waster1821
befool1861
to frivol away1866
to play (at) duck and drake with1872
to fling away1873
mislive1887
slather1904
mucker1928
profligate1938
peter1956
spaff2002
1928 H. G. Wells Way World is Going 15 The Western Powers of Europe..muckered away an enormous amount of war gear and money in supporting crazy ‘white hopes’ against the nascent new thing in Russia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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