Muck Definition
mŭk
mucked, mucking, mucks
noun
mucks
Moist manure.
Webster's New World
Mire; mud.
Webster's New World
Black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer.
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Anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth.
Webster's New World
Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
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verb
mucked, mucking, mucks
To fertilize with muck.
Webster's New World
To dirty with or as with muck.
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To make a mess of; bungle.
Webster's New World
To clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from.
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To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.
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idiom
muck about
- to waste time; putter
Webster's New World
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Origin of Muck
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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 mýxa 'mucus, lamp wick', mýkes 'fungus'), from *(s)meug, meuk 'to slip'. More at meek.
From Wiktionary
Middle English muk of Scandinavian origin Old Norse myki dung
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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