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HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK is muckety-muck ... Rhymes for high-muck-a-muck. amok · amuck · awestruck · dumbstruck · potluck · roebuck ...
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HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
High-muck-a-muck definition: an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.
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high muck-a-muck in American English - Collins Dictionary
a person in a position of importance and authority; esp., one who is overbearing : also high muckamuck
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high-muck-a-muck
high-muck-a-muck N. Amer. colloq. (ˈhaɪˌmʌkəmʌk) Also high-you-muck-a-muck. [app. ad. Chinook Jargon hiu plenty + mucka-muck food.] A self-important person, one who imagines he is more exalted than he is.1856 Democratic State Jrnl. (Sacramento) 1 Nov. 3/1 The professors—the high ‘Muck-a-Mucks’—tried...
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high-muck-a-muck - Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Synonyms for HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK: heavy, big, heavyweight, lion, muck-a-muck, nawab, wheel, king; Antonyms of HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK: nobody, ...
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41 Synonyms & Antonyms for HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK | Thesaurus.com
View definitions for high-muck-a-muck. high-muck-a-muck. noun as in big shot. Synonyms. Strongest matches. bigwig · dignitary · heavyweight · mogul. Weak ...
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muck-a-muck
muck-a-muck (ˈmʌkəmʌk) [Chinook jargon.] 1. Used by or with reference to Amerindians of western North America: food.1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 150 Muck-a-muck, Provisions, eat. 1852 Oregonian (Portland) 25 Dec. 2/3 The aborigine..‘put’ for the settlement with a sort of legs-do-your-duty-f...
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High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese
This collaboratively created website explores historical and contemporary tensions surrounding Chinese immigration to British Columbia, Canada.
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high muckamuck - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
high muckamuck (plural high muckamucks). (Canada, US, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status. [from 19th c.].
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“Muck-a-muck” and Jargon history
One of its words in most common use was “muck-a-muck,” and it meant food, or anything that could be converted into food, except salmon. Salmon ...
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HIGH MUCKAMUCK - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
An important, often overbearing person. [By folk etymology (influenced by HIGH) from Chinook Jargon hayo makamak, much food, plenty to eat, hayo ...
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Muck-a-muck - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating in 1912 from Chinook jargon "high muck-a-muck" meaning "plenty of food," this term means a (self-)important person, derived from "muckamuck" ...
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tyee
‖ tyee, tyhee (ˈtaɪiː) [Chinook jargon.] 1. A chief; a person of distinction. N. Amer. slang.1792 in E. Healey Hist. Alert Bay (1958) 15 The Ty-ee, or chief, of the village paid us an early visit. 1866 J. K. Lord Naturalist in Brit. Columbia I. 161, I was presented to the chiefs as a Hyas tyee (grea...
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