muck
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muck¹
- /mʌk/
- /mʊk/
Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it 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.
noun mucks
- Slimy mud, sludge. The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
- Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. What's that green muck on the floor?
- Grub, slop, swill
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Money.
the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
Similar: ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching
- The pile of discarded cards.
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Heroin.
Similar: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee, henry, heroin
- Pornography.
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Semen.
Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
Similar: baby batter, baby gravy, balljuice, boy juice, cock juice, cock snot, come, cream, creme, cum, cumload, cumshot
- Food, especially that eaten quickly. Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
verb mucks · mucking · mucked
- To shovel muck from. mucking stalls
- To manure with muck.
- To do a dirty job.
- To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
- To vomit. Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
- To eat; to devour or guzzle.
Muck²
Where it comes from
From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).
proper noun Mucks
- A surname.
Muck³
Where it comes from
From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).
proper noun
- A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
MUCK⁴
Where it comes from
From muck, as a play on mud (“a mucky substance”) and MUD (“multi-user dungeon”). Various backronyms have been invented but are not the true origin.
noun MUCKs
- A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: goo, mire, dung, manure, sludge, ooze, gunk, slime, muck up, guck, mud, droppings, slurry, raker, broom, peatland
Translations
Every language
noun slimy mud
| Español | porquería |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 두엄 dueom |
| 日本語 | 泥 doro, 黒泥土 kokudeido |
| हिन्दी | कीचड़ kīcaṛ |
| Français | boue, gadoue |
| Deutsch | Schlamm, Matsch, Schmiere, Schmuddel, Siff |
| Italiano | sporcizia, porcheria |
| Русский | грязь grjazʹ, жи́жа žíža, слякоть sljakotʹ |
noun soft manure
| Español | estiércol |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 堆肥 taihi, 腐葉土 fuyōdo, 腐植土 fushokudo |
| Français | fumier |
| Deutsch | Mist, Dung, Jauche |
| Italiano | letame |
| Русский | наво́з navóz |
verb shovel muck
| Deutsch | ausmisten |
|---|---|
| Italiano | spalare letame, spalare, spalare merda |
| Русский | выгребать vygrebatʹ |
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title = {muck},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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