(n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
(n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following is a case history dealing with usage of the Swanson-Ducker designed Silastic nerve caps for the treatment of amputation-type neuromas.
(2) If one excludes the now ancient vagal theories (CAMERON 1949; CAMPBELL, 1949) which were never confirmed, all of the most recent experimental works (SARNOFF, 1952; DUCKER, 1968; LUISADA, 1967; MORITZ, 1974) confirm the adrenergic disorder of central origin during neurogenic A.P.E.
(3) Another said : "He is a cockney wide-boy agent, not unlike Jonathan in many ways: a wheeler, a dealer, a ducker, a diver.
(4) Combining the roles of chief executive and council leader also risks creating additional turmoil if the authority changes hands, argues Ann Ducker, leader of South Oxfordshire district council.
(5) At low iron(III)-concentrations (less than 10(-5) M) the fungus Aspergillus viridi-nutans Ducker & Thrower excretes desferri-ferricrocin as the main sideramine into the culture medium.
(6) Ken Ducker Yorkley, Gloucestershire • Are these letters about dispiriting phrases designed to “raise awareness”?
(7) In spite of the cockney 'ducker and diver' front, I think of him like an old-fashioned Hollywood impresario."
(8) Both prosecution and, to some extent, defence have tapped into the perception of the best English manager of the modern era over the past two weeks, the crown seeking to expose Redknapp as a ducker and diver with all the nous required to set up an anonymous offshore bank account .
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.