"Mucky-shmuck"

[Dave Robertson]

Of interest to some who follow the trajectory of words not only into and through, but out of pidgins and creoles, will be this case.  A fellow employee of mine here, who has't spent his whole life in the Northwest, nevertheless is fluent enough in our lingo to derisively refer to a certain wealthy businessperson as a "big mucky-shmuck".

-- Dave
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"Asking a linguist how many languages she knows is like asking a doctor how many diseases he has!" -- anonymous



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