muck

noun

/mʌk/

Etymology

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.

derived from *(s)mewg-✻
derived from *muk-✻
inherited from *mukį̄✻ — “dung; manure”
derived from myki
inherited from mok

Definitions

1
Slimy mud, sludge.
- The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
Soft (or slimy) manure.
3
Anything filthy or vile. Dirt
Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- What's that green muck on the floor?
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1. Grub, slop, swill
2. 5
  Money.
  - the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
3. The pile of discarded cards.
4. Heroin.
5. Pornography.
6. 9
  Semen.
  - Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
7. 10
  Food, especially that eaten quickly.
  - Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
8. 11
  To shovel muck from.
  - We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
9. To manure with muck.
10. To do a dirty job.
11. To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already…
  To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
12. 15
  To vomit.
  - Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
13. To eat
  To eat; to devour or guzzle.
14. A surname.
15. A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
16. A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing…
  A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.

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Derived

cinemuck, common as muck, de-muck, foreign muck, guck, muck about, muck and bullets, muck around, mucker, muck fly, muckheap, muckhill, muck in, muckite, muckland, muckmidden, muckology, muck out, muckrake, muckraker, muck-snipe, muck spreader, muck sweat, muck tube, muck-up, muck up, muckworm, mucky, where there's muck there's brass

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for muck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA