muckymuck

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Related to muckymuck: muckety muck

muckymuck

(ˈmʌkɪˌmʌk)

informal Canadian a person who is or looks very important

[from Chinook jargon; see high-muck-a-muck]

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"In Sunlight and in Shadow has its improbabilities, such as when Harry and Catherine rescue a vagrant who turns out to be a Wall Street muckymuck. An old beau seems to weigh a bit too heavily on Catherine's theatrical career by buying off every critic.