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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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