Etymology

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Today it means: An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig. Full definition →

Yiddish מאַכער
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  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromמאַכער“influential person”
  2. English todaymacher

From Yiddish מאַכער (makher, “influential person”, literally “one who makes”) from מאַכן (makhn, “to make”). Cognate, naturally, to English maker and German Macher.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.