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Mucker vs Mocker - What's the difference?

mucker | mocker |

As nouns the difference between mucker and mocker

is that mucker is friend while mocker is a person who mocks.

As a verb mucker

is to scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

mucker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, slang, southern) friend
    • Fancy a pint, me old mucker ?
  • (slang, Northern Ireland) friend or acquaintance
    • How's about ye mucker ? = How are you?
  • 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

    * (friend) See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
    • (Udall)
    (Webster 1913)

    mocker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who mocks.
  • A mockingbird.
  • (archaic) A deceiver; an impostor.

    • Derived terms

    * mocker nut * put the mockers on