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muck

UK/mʌk/ US/mʊk/ fairly common informal slang
verb (3) noun (2)

verb

1.

remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine

2.

spread manure, as for fertilization

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3.

soil with mud, muck, or mire

  • “The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden”
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noun

1.
2.

fecal matter of animals

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • common as muck
  • foreign muck
  • muck about
  • muck and bullets
  • muck around
  • muck fly
  • muck in
  • muck out

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