muck

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Slimy mud, sludge.
2. (uncountable, usually) Soft (or slimy) manure.
3. (uncountable, usually) Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
4. (uncountable, usually) Grub, slop, swill
5. (derogatory, obsolete, uncountable, usually) Money.
6. (uncountable, usually) The pile of discarded cards.
7. (Scotland, slang, uncountable, usually) Heroin.
8. (slang, uncountable, usually) Pornography.
9. (slang, uncountable, usually) Semen.
10. (uncountable, usually) Food, especially that eaten quickly.

Verb

1. To shovel muck.
2. To manure with muck.
3. To do a dirty job.
4. (colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
5. (Australia, informal) To vomit.
6. (Canada, slang) To eat.
7. To devour or guzzle.

Concepts

boue

fumier

lie

gadoue

jeter du fumier

crotter

chère

croûte

fange

maculer

ordure

🗑️

saleté

se salir

tacher

bectance

boustifaille

cochonner

hébéter

pitance

saletés

s’encrasser

tambouille

bouette

gibelotte

becquetance

🍽️

bâfre

abrutir

bouffetance

amender

barbouiller

boulot

bourbe

bouse

Synonymes

dung

manure

mud

filth

mire

dirt

slime

sludge

ooze

refuse

droppings

vileness

grime

mess

goo

gunk

guck

goop

gook

rubbish

muck up

foul up

meanness

litter

loathsomeness

cream

fag-end

face cream

feces

fetch

crap

besmirch

excrement

cow dung

dregs

come

besmear

bedraggle

draggle

dock

clay

garbage

🗑️

futz

dirty

fuck

👉👌

gravy

frock

chuff

bemire

frig

Traductions

estiércol

letame

porquería

melma

sudiciume

concime

Dung

lodo

Mist

sterco

κοπρίζω

Schmutz

Ausbruch

Schweinefraß

Dreck

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mʌk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: mok

Appartenant à ancien anglais: *moc

Appartenant à islandais: mykja

Appartenant à danois: møg

Appartenant à gallois: mign

Appartenant à latin: mūcus

Appartenant à letton: mukls

Appartenant à albanais: myk

Appartenant à grec ancien: μύξα

Appartenant à grec ancien: μύκης

In summary

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.