Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mucker

/ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: muck-er
IPA: /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.

noun

A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.

Archaic; Derogatory

noun

A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.

Slang

noun

Friend, acquaintance.

British usage; Slang

verb

To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

noun

A follower of the religious teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1770–1826) and Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861).

Example Sentences

"Go and talk to your mucker!"
"Too fucking late, son. I didn't want my mucker blown into tiny bits."
"Fancy a pint, me old mucker?"
"In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe."

Etymology

By surface analysis, muck + -er. Compare Swedish mokare/mockare (“one who cleans dung”, agent noun) → rörmokare/rörmockare (“plumber”, literally “pipe mucker”). Compare the military sense to Finnish mokkeri (“private”, colloquial), to Swedish mocka (“to clean muck”); and Swedish mecka/meka (“to repair or improve (mechanical) equipment”), to meckaniker (“mechanic”); also Swedish mucka (“to complete military service”), from Tavringer Romani mucka (“to be released”). The military sense might also derive from a slur, a common practice in military lingo.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Mucker

Usage

Inflected Forms

muckers (plural) muckers (present, singular) muckering (participle, present) muckered (participle, past) muckered (past)

Derived Forms

muckerish muckerism

Phrases

go a mucker hand mucker

Synonyms

friend

Rhymes With

tucker fucker sucker trucker zucker pucker succour ducker smucker chucker plucker hucker

Questions

How do you pronounce mucker?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/.
What does mucker mean?: A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
Where does mucker come from?: It is traced to German.

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