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Definition of High-muck-a-muck
1. Noun. An arrogant or conceited person of importance.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-muck-a-muck
Literary usage of High-muck-a-muck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatrical and Circus Life: Or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust by John Joseph Jennings (1882)
"asked the High Muck-a-Muck. " I have some hopes, your Majesty," answered the ...
I was trembling with cold up to the time the High Muck-a-Muck mentioned the ..."
2. The arm-chair at the inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1912)
""There's one thing you're good for, High- Muck-a-Muck, if nothing else, and that
is to keep a fire going. If I wanted to find you, and there was a chimney ..."
3. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"Climate is the High Muck-a-Muck, the Grand Panjandrum, the Dalai Lama, foremost
in thought and talk on sidewalk and portico, in parlor and bedchamber. ..."
4. The Cliff-dwellers: A Novel by Henry Blake Fuller (1893)
"Still, I suppose she must be getting along in years—her husband has come to be
the Lord High Muck-a-muck of Most Everything; I've read about him for years. ..."
5. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"HIGHBROW—Intellectual person, recent slang. HIGHFALUTIN—Bombastic talk, 1848.
HIGH MUCK-A-MUCK—Person of importance, F. HIGH-STUDDED—Airy, affected, ..."
6. The Truth about the Tsar and the Present State of Russia by Carl Joubert (1905)
"... them to speak of him as " My friend the High Muck-a-Muck ; " to be in the same
parish with a notoriety gives them the right to swear to his infamy. ..."
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