Much of a muchness

alike, very much the same thing. Muck , to beat, or excel. “It’s no use, his luck’s dead in; he’d MUCK a you sand;” “he MUCKED me clean out,” . To RUN A MUCK , or GO A MUCKER , to rush headlong into certain ruin. From a certain religious frenzy, or intoxication caused by bhang, which is common among the Malays, and which now and again causes an enthusiast, kreese in hand, to dash into a crowd and devote every one he meets to death until he is himself killed, or falls from exhaustion.— Malay , AMOK , slaughter. Muckender , or MUCKENGER , a pocket-handkerchief.— Old. Cf. SNOTTINGER . The original name of the “Neckinger” in Bermondsey was “the Devil’s Neck-handkerchief.” There is still a Neckinger Road and Me rs. Bevington and Sons’ tannery in Bermondsey bears the name of the Neckinger Mills.