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muckraker |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: muckrake \muck"rake`\, in the above sense and the noun muckraker \muck"rak`er\, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's Progress'' so intent on raking up muck that he could not see a celestial crown held above him Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteid matter. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: muckraker n : one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) [syn: {mudslinger}]
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