high muckamuck

See also: high-muck-a-muck

English

Etymology

From Chinook Jargon hiyu muckamuck (“plenty of food”). Compare muckamuck.

Noun

high muckamuck (plural high muckamucks)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A person in a position of power, authority, or status. [from 19th c.]
    • 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 94:
      He would become well when he reformed his eating habits and submitted himself to the regimen prescribed by Dr. John HArvey Kellogg and the high muckamucks of health.

Translations
muckamuck — see muckamuck
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