muck
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
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.
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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.
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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 do a dirty job.
- To make an error or do a bad job.
- You really mucked up that job.
- (poker, colloquial) To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).
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[edit] Manx
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muck f. (genitive muickey or muigey, plural mucyn, muckyn, or muick)
- Alternative form of muc.
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| 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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[edit] Scots
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Probably of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse myki, mykr ‘dung’.
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muck (uncountable)
[edit] Verb
tae muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle muckin, simple past muckit, past participle muckit)
[edit] Turkish
[edit] Noun
- Kiss sound, mwah
