muck

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

boue

fumier

estiércol

letame

porquería

lie

sudiciume

Dung

Mist

melma

concime

lodo

Ausbruch

crotter

κοπρίζω

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mok

Cognate with Old English: *moc

Cognate with Icelandic: mykja

Cognate with Danish: møg

Cognate with Welsh: mign

Cognate with Latin: mūcus

Cognate with Latvian: mukls

Cognate with Albanian: myk

Cognate with Ancient Greek: μύξα

Cognate with Ancient Greek: 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.