Meanings
plural muckenders · alternative mockador · alternative mockadour · alternative muckenger · alternative muckinder · alternative muckinger · alternative muckiter
- obsoleteA handkerchief.
For the dull muse a muckender were fit / To wipe the slav'rings of her infant wit, / Which, though 'tis late, if justice could be found, / Should like blind, new-born puppies yet be drown'd.
1979, Charles Sackville, “On Mr. Edward Howard upon his "New Utopia"”, in Brice Harris, editor, The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, pages 16—17, lines 31—34
Origin
- Old Occitanmocador
- Middle Englishmokadour
- Englishmuckender
Inherited from Middle English mokadour, from Old Occitan mocador. For the development of excrescent /n/, compare harbinger, passenger.
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