muck

1 any thick messy substance [syn: sludge, slime, goo, gook, guck, gunk, ooze]

2 fecal matter of animals [syn: droppings, dung]

1 remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine

2 spread manure, as for fertilization [syn: manure]

3 soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, mud, muck up]

English

Etymology

mok, muk, borrowed from myki 'dung'.

Pronunciation

• US: /mʌk/, /mVk/

  Rhymes: -ʌk

Noun

1. Slimy mud.
2. Soft or slimy manure.

Translations

• Finnish: muta (more solid), lieju (more running)
• Korean: 두엄 (dueom)

Derived terms

• muck about
• muck around
• muck in
• muck out
• mucker
• muckraker
• mucky
• muck spreader
• common as muck

Scots

Etymology

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

Noun

1. dung, manure, muck

Verb

1. To dirty, foul

Muck can refer to:

• Muck (soil)
• Muck, Scotland, an island in Scotland
• Muck (gambling), a number of actions (both legal and illegal)
• Muck (mining), sorting out the rich ore from the poor rock in an underground metallic mine after blasting
• The red bulldozer called "Muck" in the children's television show Bob the Builder
• A "Multi-User Chat Kingdom", a type of text-based multi-user game or chat forum.
• Something scandalous. A journalist who publishes scandalous things is called a muckraker.
• Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, has used the term "Muck" to describe his firm's rentable utility-computing infrastructure.

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