Ducker vs Mucker - What's the difference?
ducker | mucker |
(UK, slang, southern) friend
(slang, Northern Ireland) friend or acquaintance
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.
(obsolete) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
As nouns the difference between ducker and mucker
is that ducker is one who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver while mucker is (uk|slang|southern) friend.As a verb mucker is
(obsolete|transitive) to scrape together (money, etc) by mean labour or shifts.mucker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fancy a pint, me old mucker ?
- How's about ye mucker ? = How are you?
Usage notes
* Mucker , in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.Synonyms
* (friend) SeeVerb
(en verb)- (Udall)