muckender

• mockador, mockadour, muckenger, muckinder, muckinger, muckiter

Inherited from Middle English mokadour, from Old Occitan mocador. For the development of excrescent /n/, compare harbinger, passenger.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌk.ɪn.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌk.ɪn.dɚ/

muckender (plural muckenders)

1. (obsolete) A handkerchief.
   • 1979, Charles Sackville, “On Mr. Edward Howard upon his "New Utopia"”, in Brice Harris, editor, The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset‎^[1], pages 16—17, lines 31—34:

     For the dull muse a muckender were fit / To wipe the slav'rings of her infant wit, / Which, though 'tis late, if justice could be found, / Should like blind, new-born puppies yet be drown'd.

• “muckender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• OED