What's the difference between muck and mucker?

Muck


Definition:

  • () abbreviation of Amuck.
  • (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.
  • (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  • (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
  • (n.) Money; -- in contempt.
  • (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  • (v. t.) To manure with muck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
  • (2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
  • (3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
  • (5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
  • (6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
  • (7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
  • (8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
  • (9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
  • (10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
  • (11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
  • (12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
  • (13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
  • (14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
  • (15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
  • (16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
  • (17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
  • (18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
  • (19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
  • (20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.

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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