muck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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 mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Ancient Greek mýxa 'mucus, lamp wick', mýkes 'fungus'), from *(s)meug, meuk 'to slip'. More at meek.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
muck (uncountable)
- Slimy mud.
- The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
- Soft or slimy manure.
- dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- What's that green muck on the floor? It looks like an alien.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle mucking, simple past and past participle mucked)
- To shovel muck.
- We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
- To manure with muck.
- To do a dirty job.
- (poker, colloquial) To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).
Derived terms[edit]
- muck about
- muck around
- muck in
- muck out
- muck up
- mucker
- muckraker
- mucky
- muck spreader
- common as muck
- where there's muck there's brass
Manx[edit]
Noun[edit]
muck f (genitive muickey or muigey, plural mucyn, muckyn, or muick)
- Alternative form of muc.
Mutation[edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| muck | vuck | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse myki, mykr ‘dung’.
Noun[edit]
muck (uncountable)
Verb[edit]
tae muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle muckin, simple past muckit, past participle muckit)
Turkish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
muck
- Kiss sound, mwah
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English verbs
- en:Poker
- English colloquialisms
- Manx nouns
- Manx alternative forms
- Scots terms derived from North Germanic languages
- Scots nouns
- Scots verbs
- Turkish nouns