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mucker

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Frommuck +‎-er.

mucker (pluralmuckers)

(UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland)Friend,acquaintance.
Fancy a pint, me oldmucker?
(slang, British Army) Acomrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.
Go and talk to yourmucker!
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney,The Heretic, page246:
  Too fucking late, son. I didn't want mymucker blown into tiny bits.
A person who removesmuck (waste,debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
(archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgarlabourer.

Mucker, in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.

friend, acquaintance, comrade

person removing muck

mucker (third-person singular simple presentmuckers,present participlemuckering,simple past and past participlemuckered)

(obsolete, transitive) Toscrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
- 1548, William Forrest,Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise:
  In tyme of plentie the riche too vppmucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.