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Muck

//mʌk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
Noun
  1. 1
    Slimy mud, sludge. uncountable, usually

    "The car was covered in muck from the rally race."

  2. 2
    fecal matter of animals wordnet
  3. 3
    Soft (or slimy) manure. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    any thick, viscous matter wordnet
  5. 5
    Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. uncountable, usually

    "What's that green muck on the floor?"

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  1. 6
    Grub, slop, swill uncountable, usually
  2. 7
    Money. derogatory, obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "the fatal muck we quarrell'd for"

  3. 8
    The pile of discarded cards. uncountable, usually
  4. 9
    Heroin. Scotland, slang, uncountable, usually
  5. 10
    Pornography. slang, uncountable, usually
  6. 11
    Semen. slang, uncountable, usually

    "Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot."

  7. 12
    Food, especially that eaten quickly. uncountable, usually

    "Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To shovel muck from. transitive

    "We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick."

  2. 2
    remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine wordnet
  3. 3
    To manure with muck. transitive
  4. 4
    soil with mud, muck, or mire wordnet
  5. 5
    To do a dirty job.
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  1. 6
    spread manure, as for fertilization wordnet
  2. 7
    To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. colloquial
  3. 8
    To vomit. Australia, informal, intransitive

    "Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck."

  4. 9
    To eat; to devour or guzzle. Canada, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).

Etymology 4

From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).

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