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单词 mucker
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Definition of mucker in English:

mucker

noun ˈmʌkəˈməkər
  • 1A person who removes dirt and waste, especially from mines or stables.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At age 16, he began working in the mine as a mucker - the dirtiest and most difficult job in the mine.
    • I am an adult person, also a horse owner, who is available for part-time or full-time work as mucker or groomer.
    • As the lead instructor, owner, operator and stall mucker of KD Stable, I am not afraid of work.
  • 2British informal A friend or companion.

    we felt like old muckers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He ignored perhaps a dozen requests for an interview, including a plea via his old mucker Cascarino.
    • No other two great thinkers (not me and my mucker, the other two) have supplied the world with such an open invitation to knowing so dangerously little.
    • Spent a very pleasant evening last week down the pub with my old mucker Joseph Kaye, a good mate from school.
    • After luxuriating in the playful sonic palette (and fine cast of notable collaborators) that Byrne's one-time mucker Brian Eno brought to the band's studio productions, the listener's rudely woken by the later work.
    • Delighted to see my old mucker Bob McLean has a new book out charting the history of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly / Parliament.
    • Some, however, such as his old mucker Major, believe the question is still unresolved.
    • A little tip Robbie, me old mucker… you are the entertainer, so entertain.
    • I told my muckers in the army that I went on the march of 2 million against the war.
    • Of course, he's an old mucker of yours, Bobby George, isn't he?
    • A good chance to spend more time with your old mucker Fraser
    • I was delighted to play alongside him for one last time; I wanted to play with my old mucker before he retired and went home to Iceland.
    • But there is an awkwardness about Rangers manager Alex McLeish, his major mucker since the pair came through as teenagers at Aberdeen, becoming the man he must master.
    • Despite the rivalry, he insists he is still good muckers with Amis, who he thinks receives an inexplicably hostile press, and Barnes, who he says has been in hiding finishing a novel.
    • Mouse usually plays a pre-Cheltenham round of golf with his mucker Charlie Swan, but not this year.
    • Duff has indeed expressed the wish to be re-reunited with his old mucker after the latter finishes his spell in one of Her Majesty's penal institutions, noting: ‘I can't believe a stupid fight came to this.’
    • One night, after a big substance abuse session with his layabout muckers, Herbie leaves the flat only to be met by a solitary figure in a boiler suit and white gas mask.
    • My second visit was when my old housemate and mucker Susan Perks was in the show ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
    • All his comedy muckers are in the book, along with others, almost forgotten, such as Charlie Drake, Dickie Henderson, Alfred Marks and Norman Vaughan.
    • He could have been red-carded for that, and the Italian coaches, Brad Johnstone and my old mucker John Kirwan, must have been tearing out what little remains of their hair.
    • What makes the whole story even more delicious is that our old mucker Fred Durst was on the show.
    Synonyms
    companion, boon companion, bosom friend, best friend, close friend, intimate, confidante, confidant, familiar, soul mate, alter ego, second self, shadow, playmate, playfellow, classmate, schoolmate, workmate, ally, comrade, associate
  • 3US dated, informal A rough or coarse person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These greedy muckers, they would cheat the village of their money and maybe one day they would just rebel and loot the village!
    • Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough.
    • And if you're saying such a stupid thing you're most likely the wickedest mucker in the entire office. Thing is, you don't have to work with or around yourself.
    • Things are getting desperate, but Dashti is just a simple mucker and a Lady's maid.

Phrases

  • come a mucker

    • 1dated, informal Fall heavily.

      I came a mucker over the bank on my third run
      1. 1.1Suffer a defeat or disaster.
        they agreed that if a man tried to be too clever he was bound to come a mucker

Origin

Middle English: from muck + -er1; sense 2 probably from the phrase muck in. sense 3 is probably from German Mucker 'sulky person'.

Rhymes

chukka (US chukker), ducker, felucca, plucker, pucker, pukka, shucker, succour (US succor), sucker, trucker, tucker, yucca
 
 

Definition of mucker in US English:

mucker

nounˈməkərˈməkər
  • 1A person who removes dirt and waste, especially from stables.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the lead instructor, owner, operator and stall mucker of KD Stable, I am not afraid of work.
    • At age 16, he began working in the mine as a mucker - the dirtiest and most difficult job in the mine.
    • I am an adult person, also a horse owner, who is available for part-time or full-time work as mucker or groomer.
  • 2US dated, informal A rough or coarse person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Things are getting desperate, but Dashti is just a simple mucker and a Lady's maid.
    • These greedy muckers, they would cheat the village of their money and maybe one day they would just rebel and loot the village!
    • And if you're saying such a stupid thing you're most likely the wickedest mucker in the entire office. Thing is, you don't have to work with or around yourself.
    • Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough.

Origin

Middle English: from muck + -er; mucker (sense 2) probably from the phrase muck in. mucker (sense 3) is probably from German Mucker ‘sulky person’.

 
 
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