m 3 u 1 c 3 k 5 r 1 a 1 k 5 e 1 r 1
9 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)
originFrom muck + raker. Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- muckrake 20
- mucker 14
- keck 14
- amuck 13
- marker 12
- murker 12
- racker 12
- remark 12
- rerack 12
- ekka 12
- kark 12
- mack 12