Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A high muckamuck.
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- noun US, dialectal
Food . - noun idiomatic, irreverent A person in a position of
power ,authority , orstatus .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I always thought this burg was Mecca for complainers, and anathema for lemmings and sheep who roll over for any scheming muckamuck who comes along.
The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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She wriggled forward, hoping she wasn't already too close to the muckamuck.
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The muckamuck was nowhere to be seen, though its fearmonger had come to rest in a rosebush.
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The flunkies had left their muckamuck exposed, but it had also turned its glistening head in their direction.
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Now Wyrzbowski could see the muckamuck, resplendent in the egg-sack slime of its body suit, wielding its red fearmonger while flunkies covered its spindle-shanked ass.
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Carrying a bunch of regular slaves, but forward was a batch that were a gift from the Satrap of Jamaillia himself to some high muckamuck in Chalced.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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“Related to a former muckamuck and another former muckamuck, families with places in Rhinebeck and Newport, apartments in the Dakota—”
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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“Related to a former muckamuck and another former muckamuck, families with places in Rhinebeck and Newport, apartments in the Dakota—”
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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“Related to a former muckamuck and another former muckamuck, families with places in Rhinebeck and Newport, apartments in the Dakota—”
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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She apparently has her own way in everything now, the old chief being quite satisfied to get his rations of muckamuck and tobacco without troubling himself as to how it is provided.
kalayzich commented on the word muckamuck
In collins 7th edition
and means food also a verbal sense to eat
Chinook jargon
May 16, 2009
kalayzich commented on the word muckamuck
In collins 7th edition
and means food also a verbal sense to eat
Chinook jargon
May 16, 2009