Brewer's: Mucklewrath

Habakkuk Mucklewrath. A fanatic preacher. (SirWalterScott: Old Mortality.)

John Mucklewrath.
Smith at Cairnvreckan village. Dame Mucklewrath, his wife, is a perfect virago. (Sir Walter Scott: Waverley.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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