muck
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //mʌk//
- //mʊk//
Slimy mud, sludge.
noun
- 1
Slimy mud, sludge.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
- 2
Soft (or slimy) manure.
- 3
figurativeAnything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
What's that green muck on the floor?
"I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she [Melinda French Gates] said, adding elsewhere in the interview: "Whatever questions remain there of what - I can't even begin to know all of it - those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband.
- 4
Grub, slop, swill
- 5
obsoleteMoney.
the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
- 6
The pile of discarded cards.
- 7
slangHeroin.
- 8
slangPornography.
- 9
slangSemen.
Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
- 10
Food, especially that eaten quickly.
Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
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.
verb
- 1
To shovel muck from.
We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
- 2
To manure with muck.
- 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.
- 5
informalTo vomit.
Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
- 6
slangTo eat; to devour or guzzle.
Forms
- plural
- mucks
- past tense
- mucked
- past participle
- mucked
- present participle
- mucking
- third person singular
- mucks