Mucked vs Mucker - What's the difference?
mucked | mucker |
(muck)
Slimy mud.
Soft or slimy manure.
dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
Anything filthy or vile.
(obsolete, derogatory) money
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To shovel muck.
To manure with muck.
To do a dirty job.
(poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).
(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 verbs the difference between mucked and mucker
is that mucked is (muck) while mucker is (obsolete|transitive) to scrape together (money, etc) by mean labour or shifts.As a noun mucker is
(uk|slang|southern) friend.mucked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*muck
English
Noun
(-)- The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
- (Francis Bacon)
- What's that green muck on the floor?
- (Spenser)
- the fatal muck we quarrelled for
Derived terms
* mucky * where there's muck there's brassVerb
(en verb)- We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
Derived terms
* muck about * muck around * muck in * muck out * muck up * mucker * muckraker * mucky * muck spreader * common as muck * where there's muck there's brass ----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)
