mucker

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Only a fool or a mucker could believe such a thing of her Yes, I have been to see her, and I'll tell you why I'll tell you why, good and plenty My first day in this place she was the only human, pleasant thing I met.

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  1. One who removes muck from stables, etc. Cath. Ang., p. 246.
  2. To hoard up; heap. Lord, trow ye a coveytous or a wreeche, That blameth love, or halt of it despite, That of tho pens that he gan mokre [var. moke] and theche, Was ever yet igeve him suich delite, As is in love in o pointe in soon plyte? Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1375. But as sone as thy backe is turned from the preacher, thou runest on with al thy forcasting studies, to muckre vp ryches. J. Udall, On Jas. i.
  3. To make a mess or muddle of any business; muddle; fail. [Provincial English] By-the-bye, Welter has muckered; you know that by this time. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xiv.
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  • Like every mucker or miner who had ever helped build a tunnel, he was broke between jobs. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
  • Shortly, what though they make decrees expressly against God's Word, and that not in hucker-mucker or covertly, but openly, and in the face of the world, must it needs yet be Gospel straight whatsoever these men say? —  The Apology of the Church of England
  • He gave me a viva voce exam., and I came a mucker over it Her voice had an edge of bitterness; she hadn't liked coming a mucker, nor yet being told she couldn't get through exams. —  Dangerous Ages
  • Then there's the cut--I daresay that isn't very much--but one can't tell that I must have come an awful mucker," Gerda murmured, after a pause. —  Dangerous Ages
  • There would have been a bill for repairs on the scoundrel if I had caught him the day I drove his gang off the Sawdust Pile Well, I approve of your sentiments, Donald, but, nevertheless, it's a poor practise for a gentleman to fight with a mucker, although," he added whimsically, "when I was your age I always enjoyed a go with such fellows. —  Kindred of the Dust
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  1. from Middle English mukker; from muck+ -er.
  2. from Middle English muckeren, muckren, mokeren; apparently freq. of muck, v.
  3. from mucker, v.
  4. from German mucker, a sulky person, a hypocrite, from mucken, mutter, grumble.
 

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