Muck definition
Mire; mud.
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.
noun
To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.
verb
To muck one's hand in a card game.
verb
Moist manure.
noun
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Black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer.
noun
Anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth.
noun
To fertilize with muck.
verb
(chiefly brit.) To clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from.
verb
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Slimy mud.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
noun
Anything filthy or vile.
noun
To shovel muck.
We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
verb
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To do a dirty job.
verb
A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
noun
Moist farmyard dung; manure.
noun
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Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
noun
Something filthy or disgusting.
noun
Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
noun
The pile of discarded cards, as in poker.
Threw his hand into the muck.
noun
To fertilize with manure or compost.
verb
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To make dirty, especially with muck.
verb
To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
verb
(informal) To dirty with or as with muck.
verb
(slang) To make a mess of; bungle.
verb
muck about
- to waste time; putter
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of muck
- Middle English muk of Scandinavian origin Old Norse myki dung
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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.
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