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muck

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See also: Muck and MUCK

English

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Etymology

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    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.

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    Noun

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    muck (usually uncountable, plural mucks)

    1. Slimy mud, sludge.
      The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
      I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
    2. Soft (or slimy) manure.
    3. (also figurative) Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
      What's that green muck on the floor?
      • 2026 February 25, Ben Hatton, quoting Melinda French Gates, “Bill Gates 'took responsibility' over Epstein ties in staff meeting, foundation says”, in BBC‎[1]:
        "I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she [Melinda French Gates] said, adding elsewhere in the interview: "Whatever questions remain there of what - I can't even begin to know all of it - those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband.
    4. Grub, slop, swill
    5. (obsolete, derogatory) Money.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
    6. (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
    7. (Scotland, slang) Heroin.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
    8. (slang) Pornography.
    9. (slang) Semen.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:semen
    10. (Ottawa Valley Dialect) Food, especially that eaten quickly.
      Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?

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    Verb

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

    1. (transitive) To shovel muck from.
      mucking stalls
      We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
    2. (transitive) To manure with muck.
    3. To do a dirty job.
    4. (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
    5. (Australia, informal, intransitive) To vomit.
      Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
    6. (Canada, slang) To eat; to devour or guzzle.

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    Manx

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    Noun

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    muck f (genitive singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)

    1. alternative form of muc

    Mutation

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    Mutation of muck
    radical lenition eclipsis
    muck vuck unchanged

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Scots

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    Etymology

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    Probably of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse myki, mykr ‘dung’.

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    muck (uncountable)

    1. dung, manure, muck

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    muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle muckin, simple past and past participle muckit)

    1. To dirty, foul

    Swedish

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    Etymology 1

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    From mucka (“to protest”).

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    muck n (indeclinable)

    1. (colloquial) an objection, a protest
    2. (colloquial, bleached) discernable part of an utterance
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    • The second sense is usually used in the expression inte höra/begripa ett muck (”not hear/understand a thing”).
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    Etymology 2

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    From Tavringer Romani muck (“free”), from Romani muk- (“to let, to release, to leave”). Related to Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, to free, to let go”).

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    muck c

    1. (military, colloquial) demobilization
    Declension
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    Declension of muck
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite muck mucks
    definite mucken muckens
    plural indefinite — —
    definite — —
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    References

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    • “muck”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
    • Gerd Carling (2005), “muck”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 92

    Turkish

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    muck

    1. Kiss sound, mwah
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