Word: muckeritis
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Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "I submit that Fiorello LaGuardia has been the worst mucker on the New Deal team...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...brawny lad of 20 before he heard there were any good living poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...
Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...