Muckraker : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Muckraker	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Muckraker
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muckraker n one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) Synonym(s): muckraker, mudslinger
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 [bd]Pilgrim's Progress[b8] 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.