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mucky muck

mucky muck is the alternative form of muckamuck.

Meaning of muckamuck

Noun

muckamuck (countable and uncountable, plural muckamucks)

  1. (colloquial, countable, derogatory, sometimes) A person in a position of power or authority, or of high status.
    • I think it was the Fourth of July when they took the chair from under my ass again. Not a word of warning. One of the big muck-a-mucks from the other side of the water had decided to make economies; […]1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 191
  2. (US, dated, dialectal, possibly, uncountable) Food.
    • 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.1884, Newton H. Chittenden, Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands, page 69

Forms of mucky muck

pluralmucky mucks

Questions about mucky muck

What is mucky muck the alternative form of?
Mucky muck is the alternative form of muckamuck.

Words near mucky muck in the dictionary

  1. mucksweats
  2. mucksy
  3. muckworm
  4. muckworms
  5. mucky
  6. mucky muck
  7. mucky mucks
  8. mucky pup
  9. mucky pups
  10. mucky-muck
  11. mucky-mucks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mucky muck (page history and authors); muckamuck (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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