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muck.

Slimy mud, sludge.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/mʌk//mʊk/

  1. Slimy mud, sludge.

    uncountable · usually
    The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
    I need to clean the muck off my shirt.

  2. Soft (or slimy) manure.

    uncountable · usually

  3. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

    also · figuratively · uncountable · usually
    What's that green muck on the floor?

  4. Grub, slop, swill

    uncountable · usually

  5. Money.

    derogatory · obsolete · uncountable · usually

  6. The pile of discarded cards.

    uncountable · usually

  7. Heroin.

    Scotland · slang · uncountable · usually

  8. Pornography.

    slang · uncountable · usually

  9. Semen.

    slang · uncountable · usually

  10. Food, especially that eaten quickly.

    uncountable · usually
    Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/mʌk//mʊk/

  1. To shovel muck from.

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

  2. To manure with muck.

    transitive

  3. To do a dirty job.

  4. To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.

    colloquial

  5. To vomit.

    Australia · informal · intransitive
    Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.

  6. To eat; to devour or guzzle.

    Canada · slang
Where this word comes from

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.

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