Mucʹklewrath

Habakkuk Mucklewrath. A fanatic preacher. (Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality.)

John Mucklewrath. Smith at Cairnvreckan village. Dame Mucklewrath, his wife, is a perfect virago. (Sir Walter Scott: Waverley.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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