mule skinner
a muleteer.
Origin of mule skinner
1Words Nearby mule skinner
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use mule skinner in a sentence
His father was a mule-skinner—it's in the blood—can't help it possibly.
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van LoanHe swore with the sincerity of a hen with fresh-hatched chicks and the vocabulary of a mule skinner.
The Lone Ranger Rides | Fran StrikerOne was a jolly Irish mule-skinner with a picturesque vocabulary and an inimitable brogue.
Oh, You Tex! | William Macleod RaineAbout this time a brother mule-skinner enters, mouthing a corncob pipe.
The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918 | American Expeditionary ForcesA brightly painted Indian with eagle feathered bonnet and a string of grizzly claws around his neck, won a mule skinner's money.
Chiquita, an American Novel | Merrill Tileston
British Dictionary definitions for mule skinner
US and Canadian an informal term for muleteer
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse