"muckety muck" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Either a variant of muckamuck (the short form of high muckamuck), or a shortening of high muckety-muck. See the entry muckamuck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muckety mucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muckety muck (plural muckety mucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 88:",
          "text": "Consequently, there have been times when the muckety-mucks at Merriam-Webster have requested that we all mark every third or fifth word in at least one source just to fill our files with words that would not usually catch our eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status."
      ],
      "id": "en-muckety_muck-en-noun-Y1EMLKRB",
      "links": [
        [
          "high muckamuck",
          "high muckamuck"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "status",
          "status"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial) A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "important person"
        },
        {
          "word": "muckety-muck"
        },
        {
          "word": "muckity-muck"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muckety muck"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Either a variant of muckamuck (the short form of high muckamuck), or a shortening of high muckety-muck. See the entry muckamuck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muckety mucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muckety muck (plural muckety mucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 88:",
          "text": "Consequently, there have been times when the muckety-mucks at Merriam-Webster have requested that we all mark every third or fifth word in at least one source just to fill our files with words that would not usually catch our eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "high muckamuck",
          "high muckamuck"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "status",
          "status"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial) A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "important person"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "muckety-muck"
    },
    {
      "word": "muckity-muck"
    }
  ],
  "word": "muckety muck"
}