Fw: Re: Sanas of Mucky Mucks

[Dave Robertson]

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> Definition of Muckety-Muck
> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/aboutdialect.asp
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> The origin of this word for an important person is from the Chinook Jargon
> muck-a-muck, meaning plenty of food. A visitor or guest who was important
> would rate a banquet. It made is published appearance in English in 1856.
> It's unrelated to the English word muck. Chinook Jargon, not to be
> confused
> with the native American language Chinook, was a pidgin used by traders in
> the American Northwest with Chinook, Nootka, English, and French at its
> core.
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> Karen Ellis
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> At 09:29 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
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>>Mucky Mucks
>>Mo/rga Mo/rgas
>>Great, exalted, august, majesty. (often used derisively)
>>
>>Mo/rga (pron. morkee), a..    Great, exalted; august,  majestic.
>>Mo/rgas (pron. morkas),m..  Greatness, majesty.   A  Mho/rgacht, His
>>Majesty.
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>>
>>Daniel Cassidy
>>The Irish Studies Program
>>New College of California
>>San Francisco
>>12/30//04

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