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English
Etymology
From muck + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
mucker (plural muckers)
- (UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.
Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
- (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.
- A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
- (archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.
Usage notes
- Mucker, in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
friend, acquaintance, comrade
Verb
mucker (third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered)
- (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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