mucker

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English

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Etymology

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From muck +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mucker (plural muckers)

  1. (UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.
    Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
  2. (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.
  3. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
  4. (archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.

Usage notes

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  • Mucker, in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.

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Verb

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mucker (third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered)

  1. (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.

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