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muckenger

muckenger is the alternative form of muckender.

Meaning of muckender

Noun

muckender (plural muckenders)

  1. (obsolete) A handkerchief.
    • For the dull muse a muckender were fit / To wipe the slav'rings of her infant wit, / Which, though 'tis late, if justice could be found, / Should like blind, new-born puppies yet be drown'd.1979, Charles Sackville, “On Mr. Edward Howard upon his "New Utopia"”, in Brice Harris, editor, The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, pages 16—17, lines 31—34

Forms of muckenger

pluralmuckengers

Questions about muckenger

What is muckenger the alternative form of?
Muckenger is the alternative form of muckender.

Words near muckenger in the dictionary

  1. mucked in
  2. mucked out
  3. mucked up
  4. muckender
  5. muckenders
  6. muckenger
  7. muckengers
  8. mucker
  9. muckered
  10. muckering
  11. muckerish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muckenger (page history and authors); muckender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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