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high muck-a-muck

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
high muck-a-muck (also high muckety-muck)

▶noun N. Amer. informal a self-important or conceited person.

– origin C19: perh. from Chinook hiyu ‘plenty’ + muckamuck ‘food’, with high substituted for hiyu.

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