mule skinner

noun

, Informal.

mule skinner

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

His father was a mule-skinner—it's in the blood—can't help it possibly.

He swore with the sincerity of a hen with fresh-hatched chicks and the vocabulary of a mule skinner.

One was a jolly Irish mule-skinner with a picturesque vocabulary and an inimitable brogue.

About this time a brother mule-skinner enters, mouthing a corncob pipe.

A brightly painted Indian with eagle feathered bonnet and a string of grizzly claws around his neck, won a mule skinner's money.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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