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▪ I. ˈmucker, n.1
[f. muck v. + -er1.]
†1. A scavenger. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 246/1 A Mukker, eruderista. 1790Burns Let. to Moore 14 July, As unsightly a scrawl as Betty Byre-Mucker's answer.
†2. A money-grubber. Obs.
1567Drant Horace, Epist. ii. ii. H vj, What all wherefore so gredelie the moneie mucker carkes. 1584T. Bastard Chrestoleros (1880) 91 Fye filthy muckers tis not so, Ye erre, God is not goold I know.
3. Euphemistically (chiefly in written work) = fucker. Cf. muck v. 6.
1929R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. i. 263 Does the old mucker think we're going to run away? 1942Penguin New Writing XV. 19 Suddenly old Bob says: ‘I lost my kit, Cockney.’ Silly mucker! 1952M. 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?
▪ II. mucker, n.2|ˈmʌkə(r)|
[f. muck n. + -er1.]
1. slang. A heavy fall, as in the muck; a ‘cropper’. Phrase, to come, go a mucker: chiefly fig., to come utterly to grief, to ruin oneself.
1852Kingsley in Life (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. 1869Bp. M. Creighton in Life & Lett. (1904) I. iii. 71 We have both of us gone a mucker in a copy of Mendel's lovely engraving. 1876J. Payn Halves xiv. II. 17 ‘I should make a point of..apologising for our unfortunate mistake’. ‘Yes, by Jove, a regular mucker’, muttered John. 1904V. L. Whitechurch Canon in Res. ii. 36, I came a mucker over the bank on my third run. 1914Galsworthy Mob i. 8 You're riding for a fall and a godless mucker it'll be. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xiv. 270 ‘Minefield! I thought the one that got you was a floater.’ ‘Don't you believe it... You can thank your lucky stars you didn't bump one.’.. ‘I'm glad we didn't come a mucker—jolly glad!’ 1928Galsworthy Swan Song i. vi. 41 But for you, old girl, I might have gone a holy mucker myself. 1943M. Aklom Of Social Significance in Best One-Act Plays 1942–43 166 You know what the Guardianship of Infants Act is. They passed it to prevent legal infants coming matrimonial muckers at the age of indiscretion. 1974G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah xii. 154, I like old Jimmy boy and I wouldn't want to see him come a mucker.
2. One who, or a machine which, removes muck (muck n.1 3 d).
1899Harper's Weekly 20 May 498/1 [The] Company..paid $3. for miners and $2.50 for ‘muckers’, or underground laborers. 1908[see jumbo 1 c]. 1916C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 21 Twenty men stand watching the muckers. Stabbing the sides of the ditch..for the new gas mains. 1923‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza viii. 94 Now you've staked yourself to the luxury of a mucker, you can leave him in charge. 1927Dialect Notes V. 456 Mucker, a shovel man. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 24 The rawjawed teameos and muckers..who built that railroad got little or no hard cash. 1956Fatal 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. 1965S. G. Lawrence 40 Yrs. on Yukon Telegraph iv. 23 A mucker's duties are simply to shovel and wheel out rock, and in those days on a wheelbarrow.
▪ III. mucker, n.3 slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈmʌkə(r)|
[Prob. a. G. mucker sulky person, gloomy fanatic or hypocrite.]
1. a. A fanatic or hypocrite. b. ‘A person lacking refinement; a coarse, rough person’ (Cent. Dict. 1890).
1891in Cycl. Temp. & Prohib. (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’. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. x. 242 Don't I know the look on men's faces when they think me a—a ‘mucker’, as they call it out here? 1900Ade Fables in Slang 108 They were not Muckers; they were Nice Boys. 1905D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 35 He used to class himself and me together as ‘us gentlemen’, in contrast to ‘them muckers’, meaning my colleagues. 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise 175 Why is it that the pick of young Englishmen from Oxford and Cambridge go into politics and in the USA we leave it to the muckers? 1936A. Huxley Olive Tree 182 There are the refined and aristocratic Muckers in East Prussia, with their ritual of exhibitionism and long-drawn sexual confessions.
†c. A youthful townsman, as distinct from a member of a college; a young ‘townee’. Obs. U.S. University slang.
1893W. 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. 1899A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 168 Del went through his pockets to the great joy of a limited assortment of muckers who were following. 1948[see Führer].
2. [Perh. f. muck v. 5 b.] A companion, friend, ‘mate’. slang.
1947J. Bertram Shadow of War vii. v. 239 What's the griff, mucker? 1954‘S. Carnegie’ Noble Purpose 21 McLeod..was a small dark man of lugubrious appearance. His mucker Reed was fat, fair and cherubic. 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. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 112 It isn't Taff. It's a mucker of mine down in M/T. Jock McGuffie. He's a real cure. 1972M. Woodhouse Mama Doll ix. 120 ‘Is that my old mucker?’ said Bottle. ‘None other,’ I said.
3. With advbs.: mucker-in, one who ‘mucks in’ (see muck v. 5 b); mucker-upper, a bungler.
1942A. 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. 1972Guardian 18 Feb. 14/1 A raconteur..good value at a gathering where he knows his audience, a mucker-in, a natural wit.
1942T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 9 She's a proper mucker-upper though—she'll go and catch the wrong bus.
▪ IV. mucker, v.1|ˈmʌkə(r)|
Also 4 mokre, mokere.
[? f. muck n.1 + -er5.]
1. trans. To hoard (money, goods). Also absol. and with up. Obs. exc. dial. (see E.D.D.).
[1303: implied in muckerer.] c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1326 (1375) Trowe ye, a coueitous, a wreche..Þat, of þo pans þat he can mokere & crache Was euere ȝit I-ȝeue hym swich delit As is in loue? 1530R. Whitford Werke for Householders H j, Nygardy..hurdeth & muckereth up he cannot tell for whom. 1548Forrest Pleas. Poesye 56 In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe. 1604Babington Comf. Notes 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. 1755Johnson, To Mucker, ..to scramble for money; to hoard up; to get or save meanly: a word..still retained in conversation.
†2. intr. To ‘moil’. Obs. rare.
Cf. the dial. sense ‘to be dirty’ (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. i. A j b, And thou that didste disdayne To lyve and leade the Lawyers lyfe Shalt mucker in the grounde.
Hence ˈmuckering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1400Burgh Laws lxxiii. (Sc. Stat. I.), Gif ony suilke of usage hantys to cum on nycht because of mukeryn and tavernys [causa lucri vel mali ingenii] his fysche in house by nycht þe quhilk he sulde sell on þe day in þe mercate he sal geyff til his forfalt viij s. 1556Olde Antichrist 182 For a muckering vile aduantage sake.
▪ V. mucker, v.2 slang.|ˈmʌkə(r)|
[f. mucker n.2]
a. intr. To ‘come a mucker’; to come to grief, fail.
b. trans. To ruin (one's chances). Also with away: to squander.
1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xiv, By-the-bye Welter has muckered; you know that by this time. 1869‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. (1870) 60 It's enough to mucker any chance he has. 1928H. 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. |