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Definition: MUCKER |
MUCKERNoun1. A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. Transitive verb1. To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In mining and quarrying, a laborer who (1) shovels ore or rock into mine cars or onto a conveyor from which mine cars are loaded and at some point are removed from the working face or surfaces of natural stone deposits; or (2) works in a stope shoveling ore into chutes from which it is loaded into cars on haulage level below. Also called car filler; rock passer;shoveler. (references) |
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Crosswords: MUCKER |
| Specialty definitions using "MUCKER": grouter ♦ PIE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MUCKER": Muggard. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MUCKER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (creep). |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
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| "MUCKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MUCKER" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mucker | 20 |
mucker music | 5 |
character mucker | 3 |
chara mucker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MUCKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rënie e rëndë, pastrues dherash, njeri vulgar (vulgarian), ngatërrues (disturbing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грубиан, несполука (abortion, down, dud, grief, knock, miscarriage, off, unhappiness), провал (bankruptcy, collapse, downfall, failure, ruin, sucks, unsuccess), падане (drop, fall, falling, flow, incidence, prolapsus, spill, thump, trip, tumble). (various references) | |
Czech | prudký pád, hrubec. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagy leesés, nagy esés, közönséges fráter, elhasalás, elbotlás, durva fickó. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trambolhão (fall, tumble, turnover), tombo (spill, tumbling, upset), rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubber, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, letdown, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumble, tumbling, upset), indivíduo grosseiro (cad, chaw-bacon, lout), grosseirão (clown, ribald). (various references) | |
Russian | уборщик породы, хам (cad, lout, twerp, tyke), тяжелое падение (plump), грубиян (boor, butch, cad, chuff, churl, curmudgeon, tike, twerp, tyke), лицемер (dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, Jesuit, painted sepulchre, virtuous in name, whited sepulchre). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepouzdan čovek, neotesan (bluff, boorish, hardfisted, ill mannered, impolite, inurbane, low-browed, uncouth, unhewn). (various references) | |
Spanish | patán (backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, duffer, loon, lout, oaf, rube, yokel). (various references) | |
Swedish | polare, knöl (bounder, bump, cad, cad (person), dog, knob, knot, lout, rotter, sod, tuber). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba kimse (boor, rustic), kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, boor, cad, caveman, churl, clown, lout, yahoo), ağır düşüş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хам, фанатик (bigot, fanatic, fundamentalist, partisan, sectarian, zealot), тяжке падіння, зазнати невдачі (abort, come to grief, fail, fall down, fall short, fall through, flop, miss the bus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MUCKER": muckers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-m-r-u" | |
-2 letters: cuke, cure, ecru, merk, muck, mure, murk, reck, ruck. | |
-3 letters: cue, cum, cur, ecu, emu, kue, rec, rem, rue, rum, uke. | |
-4 letters: em, er, me, mu, re, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: muckers, muckier. | |
+2 letters: muckrake, truckmen. | |
+3 letters: buckramed, muckraked, muckraker, muckrakes. | |
+4 letters: lumberjack, microquake, muckrakers. | |
+5 letters: archdukedom, computernik, hucksterism, lumberjacks, microquakes, thumbsucker, truckmaster. | |
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