muck

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /mʌk/, X-SAMPA: /mVk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Noun

muck (uncountable)

1. Slimy mud.

   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. dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

   What's that green muck on the floor? It looks like an alien.

Derived terms

• mucky
• where there's muck there's brass

Translations

Slimy mud

• Finnish: muta (more solid), lieju (more running)
• German: Schmutz (de) m, Dreck (de) m

• Korean: 두엄 (ko) (dueom)
• Maori: ōi (mi)
• Tagalog: maputik (tl)

Slimy manure

• German: Dung (de) m

• Tagalog: tae (tl)

Verb

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

1. To shovel muck.

   We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.

2. To manure with muck.
3. To do a dirty job.
4. (poker, colloquial) To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).

Derived terms

• 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

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Manx

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of muc.

Mutation

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

Etymology

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

Noun

muck (uncountable)

1. dung, manure, muck

Verb

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

1. To dirty, foul

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mudʒk/, X-SAMPA: /mudZk/

Noun

muck

1. Kiss sound, mwah