muck·er

[muhk-er]
noun
1.
Slang. a vulgar, illbred person.
2.
Informal. a person who often does or says the wrong thing; bungler.
3.
(especially in mining) a person who removes muck.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; muck + -er1

muck·er·ish, adjective
muck·er·ism, noun
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mucker (ˈmʌkə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  mining a person who shifts broken rock or waste
2.  slang (Brit)
 a.  a friend; mate
 b.  a coarse person
 
'muckerish
 
adj

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Mucker is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
Example sentences
The slab became lodged on the fender of the mucker itself.
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