high muckamuck

He did you a good turn, and I plan to be the high Muckamuck among them presently.

One looked like a reasonably high muckamuck, his cape thatched in silver fish scales.

In the meantime, I've got a darned nice time here, high Muckamuck stuff you know.

"A commendable performance," the high muckamuck said.

Now I'm going to be the Lord High Muckamuck.

It's the son of the high muckamuck of Gleep."

"Let him go, Ran, the High Muckamuck called him," said Putney in a conversational tone.

If the receptionist could carry on in this fashion, it was more than likely that she held considerable sway with some high muckamuck on the Nemesis board of directors, possibly even the Dalai Lama himself.

Certain words and expressions remain current in local use, such as skookum, tyee and saltchuck, while a few have become part of worldwide English ("high mucketymuck" or "high muckamuck" for a high-ranking and perhaps self-important official).