mucker
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈmʌkər/
- UK
:
trabajador
- In the rough and tumble neighborhood, a mucker could be found helping to clean up after the party was over.
Examples
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As a mucker, she never shied away from getting her hands dirty while helping at the community cleanup.
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He was just a mucker.
Fiction book (1990) -
Nobody sensible messed with a mucker, bound or unbound.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now, listen to me, you benighted muckers.
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The officers hauling the wild-eyed mucker, distracted by frantic relatives at their sleeves, let their grip loosen for just a moment.
Fiction book (1990) -
The workers affectionately called him the mucker because he was always willing to do the hardest and messiest jobs.
Synonyms
7
8.1
A person who does hard, dull, repetitive work
7
7.3
A person who does small, unimportant jobs for other people
Compounds
How Menial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mucker comes from muck ('dirt') with -er ('one who'), so it originally meant someone who works with dirt. That's why calling a person a mucker can mean they do dirty, physical jobs or act in a rough, boisterous way.