Comments on: High-muck-a-muck http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/high-muck-a-muck/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.1 By: Pablo http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/high-muck-a-muck/comment-page-1/#comment-948152 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:38:38 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=2559#comment-948152 I use kamuckity muck all the time. “That dudes the kamuckity muck.” Interestingly enough, I don’t believe I have used it to describe a dudette.

]]> By: Steve http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/high-muck-a-muck/comment-page-1/#comment-548525 Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:33:49 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=2559#comment-548525 I won’t disagree with your research, but there is another source that could be related as well.

In the Hawaiian pidgin, the term high makamaka means stuck up or snooty. It comes from the original word “maka” which means eye. So the high makamaka is a person whose eyes are always kept high.

The question is if it is coincidental that these cultures had similar words? Is it possible that they have been Anglo corrupted on a feedback loop to the cultures to a similar slang? Is it possible that there was some sort of weird one-off historical connection that happened between a Chinook and a Hawaiian and a few phrases were adopted? Or is it possible that it’s just us looking for a connection and letting our imaginations run wild?

Your guess is as good as mine.

]]> By: http://www.northtechnical.org/mahara/view/artefact.php?artefact=1963&view=457 http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/high-muck-a-muck/comment-page-1/#comment-61817 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:43:04 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=2559#comment-61817 High-muck-a-muck « The Word Detective

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