mucker

See also: Mucker

English

Etymology

muck +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)

Noun

mucker (plural muckers)

1. (UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.

   Fancy a pint, me old mucker?

2. (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.

3. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
4. (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

• (friend): See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• go a mucker
• hand mucker
• muckerish
• muckerism

Translations

friend, acquaintance, comrade

• Czech: kámoš (cs) m, parťák (cs) m
• German: Kumpel (de) m

person removing muck

• Finnish: mokkeri (fi) (Finglish)
• German: Gräber (de) m, Schutterer m, Schutterarbeiter m, Lader (de) m

Verb

mucker (third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered)

1. (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.

References

• “mucker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.