mukkety

Updated: May 29, 2025

I only promised flour, and away he went to get the weapon. Next day he returned, and before reaching the camp began to yell, "White fellow mukkety, white fellow mukkety." I could see he had no such thing in his hands, but when he arrived he unfolded a piece of dirty old pocket handkerchief, from which he produced what? an old discharged copper revolver cartridge.

Ernest Giles - Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,