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English
Etymology
Either a variant of muckamuck (the short form of high muckamuck), or a shortening of high muckety-muck.[1] See the entry muckamuck.
Noun
muckety muck (plural muckety mucks)
- (US, colloquial) A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:important person
2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 88:Consequently, there have been times when the muckety-mucks at Merriam-Webster have requested that we all mark every third or fifth word in at least one source just to fill our files with words that would not usually catch our eye.
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