muck

See also: Muck

English

Etymology

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old English moc (found in hlōsmoc) and also perhaps Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) (compare Icelandic mykja), from Proto-Germanic *mukī (“dung; manure”), 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 mýxa 'mucus, lamp wick', mýkes 'fungus'), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌk/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Noun

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.

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3. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

   What's that green muck on the floor?

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. grub, slop, swill
5. (obsolete, derogatory) money
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     the fatal muck we quarrelled for

6. (poker) The pile of discarded cards.

Translations

slimy mud

• Esperanto: koto (more solid), ŝlimo (more running)
• Finnish: muta (more solid), lieju (more running)
• French: boue (fr), gadoue (fr)
• German: Schlamm (de) m, Schmiere (de) f, Schmodder (de) m, Schmuddel m, Schmadder m, Siff (de) m
• Italian: sporcizia (it) f, porcheria (it) f
• Korean: 두엄 (dueom)
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• Maori: ōi
• Russian: грязь (ru) f (grjazʹ), жижа (ru) f (žiža)
• Spanish: porquería (es)
• Tagalog: maputik

soft manure

• French: fumier (fr)
• German: Dung (de) m, Mist (de) m, Jauche (de) f
• Italian: letame (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: навоз (ru) m (navoz)
• Spanish: estiércol (es)
• Tagalog: tae (tl)

anything filthy and vile, dirt

• Esperanto: malpuraĵo
• German: Dreck (de) m, Schmutz (de) m, Unrat (de) m, Dreck (de) m,
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

grup, slop, swill

• German: Fraß (de) m, Saufraß (de) m, Brühe (de) f, Schlangenfraß (de) m, , Gesöff (de) n
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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, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.

Translations

shovel muck

• Danish: muge ud
• Italian: spalare letame, spalare (it), spalare merda
• Russian: выгребать (ru) impf (vygrebatʹ)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: mocka (sv)

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 singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)

1. Alternative form of muc

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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

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

1. To dirty, foul

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɵk/
• Rhymes: -ɵk

Etymology 1

From mucka (“to protest”).

Noun

muck n (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) an objection, a protest
2. (colloquial, bleached) discernable part of an utterance

Usage notes

• The second sense is usually used in the expression inte höra/begripa ett muck (”not hear/understand a thing”).

Synonyms

• knyst (sense 2)

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

muck c

1. (military, colloquial) demobilization

Declension

Declension of muck
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	muck	mucken	—	—
Genitive	mucks	muckens	—	—

Derived terms

• mucka

References

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

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mudʒk/

Noun

muck

1. Kiss sound, mwah