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high-muck-a-muck

[ hahy-muhk-uh-muhk, -muhk-uh-muhk ]

noun

Informal.
  1. an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.


high-muck-a-muck

noun

  1. a conceited or haughty person
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of high-muck-a-muck1

First recorded in 1855–60; from Chinook Jargon hayo makamak, hiyu muckamuck, literally, “plenty to eat, much food,†perhaps extended derisively to Indigenous people of high status with much disposable wealth, as for potlatches; hayo, from Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) ḥa²â´Ç “ten†(the base of various measures with suffixes for specific countable nouns); mak(a)mak “eat, food,†from Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) ³¾²¹Â·á¸¥o·³¾²¹(±ç-) “part of whale meat between blubber and fleshâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of high-muck-a-muck1

C19: from Chinook Jargon hiu muckamuck, literally: plenty (of) food
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Speaking of things totally irrational and crazy and absurd, the Manchester City high-muck-a-muck, Roberto Mancini, has decided that since winning the league the atmosphere around their Carrington training ground is a touch too straight-laced, a bit too stuffy.

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Alaskan settlers corrupted a powerful drink of the Hutsnuwu Indians into hooch, changed hiu muckamuck, the Chinook words meaning "plenty to eat," into a high-muck-a-muck, a "person of importance."

At this point we must present, with apologies, the agent of the Autocrat, the agent, the High-muck-a-muck of the Pacific Slope, with a salary of a hundred thousand a year and perks!

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