muck-a-muck
Example Sentences
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The volume’s author, an Ipswich muck-a-muck and chief bank cashier named Thomas S. Gowing, lays out a vigorous Victorian defense against “the unnatural custom” of the razorblade.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2014
"There are some people I'll tell about this race and they're completely disgusted by it," says RunAmuck head muck-a-muck Scott Johnsson.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2010
It seems that before she left China, some high muck-a-muck gave her governor a swell pair of silk ones—something like these, I guess, but I don't know of what color.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
At last she said, pointing to the other side of the village, "Over there muck-a-muck, hy-u muck-a-muck."
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
Perhaps he had bought all his luxuries on jaw-bone from one store while he paid cash for his muck-a-muck in another.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
