mucker
See also: Mucker
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
mucker (plural muckers)
- (UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.
- Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
- (slang, British Army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.
- Go and talk to your mucker!
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 246:
- Too fucking late, son. I didn't want my mucker blown into tiny bits.
- A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
- (archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.
Usage notes edit
- Mucker, in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.
Synonyms edit
- (friend): See Thesaurus:friend
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
person removing muck
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Verb edit
mucker (third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
- 1548, William Forrest, Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise:
- In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.
References edit
- “mucker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.