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mucker.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/

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

  2. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. A low or vulgar labourer.

    archaic · derogatory

  3. A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.

    British-Army · slang
    Go and talk to your mucker!

  4. Friend, acquaintance.

    Northern-Ireland · Southern-England · UK · slang
    Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, muck + -er. Compare Swedish mokare/mockare (“one who cleans dung”, agent noun) → rörmokare/rörmockare (“plumber”, literally “pipe mucker”). Compare the military sense to Finnish mokkeri (“private”, colloquial), to Swedish mocka (“to clean muck”); and Swedish mecka/meka (“to repair or improve (mechanical) equipment”), to meckaniker (“mechanic”); also Swedish mucka (“to complete military service”), from Tavringer Romani mucka (“to be released”). The military sense might also derive from a slur, a common practice in military lingo.

verb/ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/

  1. To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, muck + -er. Compare Swedish mokare/mockare (“one who cleans dung”, agent noun) → rörmokare/rörmockare (“plumber”, literally “pipe mucker”). Compare the military sense to Finnish mokkeri (“private”, colloquial), to Swedish mocka (“to clean muck”); and Swedish mecka/meka (“to repair or improve (mechanical) equipment”), to meckaniker (“mechanic”); also Swedish mucka (“to complete military service”), from Tavringer Romani mucka (“to be released”). The military sense might also derive from a slur, a common practice in military lingo.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.