What's the difference between bucker and mucker?

Bucker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bucks ore.
  • (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
  • (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A retrospective case series of fatal accidents occurring among those employed as fallers or buckers in the British Columbia Forest Industry was studied.

Mucker


Definition:

  • (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.
  • (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.
  • (2) Tapio Liller reckons the CDU will have wished they could have given their old coalition muckers the FDP a few more votes to get them over the line...
  • (3) So, you invite David Cameron's mucker Jeremy Clarkson to plug his latest DVD and the Top Gear Christmas special on The One Show on the day of the biggest public sector strike for many a long year.
  • (4) No sooner had Ratner persuaded his mucker Eddie Murphy to act as the show's host (an inspired choice, we give him that) then he was promptly ejected from his co-producer role after some rather unwise words during the promotional rounds for his new film as director, Tower Heist.
  • (5) For example, the Mucker concert hall is Birmingham’s only surviving Victorian music hall.
  • (6) At least my old mucker Germaine Greer showed us her bits and now many women, through a mixture of Wilhelm Reich, Tantra and good old mirrors, know what they are made of.

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