muck

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noun

Muck is mud, wet manure, or a black dirt made up of rotting plant material.

An example of muck is the sticky thick ground in a cow field after the rain.
An example of muck is fresh manure.
An example of muck is the thick mud that forms underneath a pile of leaves.

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muck

moist manure
black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer
1. mire; mud
2. anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth

Origin of muck

Middle English muk from or akin to Old Norse myki, dung from Indo-European base an unverified form meuk-, slippery, viscous from source meek, Classical Latin mucus

to fertilize with muck
Informal to dirty with or as with muck: often with up
Slang to make a mess of; bungle: often with up
Chiefly Brit. to clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from: usually used with out

muck Idioms

muck about

Chiefly Brit., Slang to waste time; putter

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muck

noun

A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
Moist farmyard dung; manure.
Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
Something filthy or disgusting.
Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
The pile of discarded cards, as in poker: threw his hand into the muck.

verb

mucked, muck·ing, mucks

verb

transitive

To fertilize with manure or compost.
To make dirty, especially with muck.
To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.

verb

intransitive

To muck one's hand in a card game.

Phrasal Verbs: muck about Chiefly British To spend time idly; putter. muck up Informal To bungle, damage, or ruin.

Origin of muck

Middle English muk of Scandinavian origin Old Norse myki dung

Related Forms:

muck′i·ly
adverb

muck′y
adjective

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Noun

(uncountable)

Slimy mud.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
Soft or slimy manure.
dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
What's that green muck on the floor?
Anything filthy or vile.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle mucking, simple past and past participle mucked)

To shovel muck.
We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
To manure with muck.
To do a dirty job.
(poker, colloquial) To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).

Origin

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung") (compare Icelandic mykja), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meug (“slick, slippery"), *meuk (compare Welsh mign (“swamp"), Latin mÅ«cus (“snot"), mucere (“to be moldy or musty"), Latvian mukls (“swampy"), Albanian myk (“mould"), Ancient Greek mÃ½xa 'mucus, lamp wick', mÃ½kes 'fungus'), from *(s)meug, meuk 'to slip'. More at meek.

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