English Explanatory Dictionary

muck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Slimy mud, sludge.
  2. Soft (or slimy) manure.
  3. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
  4. Grub, slop, swill
  5. Money.
  6. The pile of discarded cards.
  7. Heroin.
  8. Pornography.
  9. Semen.
  10. Food, especially that eaten quickly.
verb
  1. To shovel muck from.
  2. To manure with muck.
  3. To do a dirty job.
  4. To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
  5. To vomit.
  6. To eat; to devour or guzzle.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
noun
  1. A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.

Pronunciation

/mʌk/ en-us-muck.ogg /mʊk/

Word forms

muck mucks mucking mucked

Etymology

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, 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 μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.

Synonyms

ackers bees and honey blunt bones brass bread bread and honey Bugs Bunny cake cheddar cheese ching clams coin cream currency dinero dosh dough feds fedi finances flizz flow funding funds gravy gwop gwolla jack legal tender lolly lovely jubbly mazuma means money moola mozzarella muck oof ooftish paper rhino scratch scrilla shrapnel simoleons smackers smackeroos smackeroonies spend spondulicks swag wampum wonga yenom Big H boy brown sugar brown

Derived words

cinemuck common as muck de-muck foreign muck guck muck about muck and bullets muck around mucker muck fly muckheap muckhill muck in muckite muckland muckmidden muckology muck out muckrake muckraker muck-snipe muck spreader muck sweat muck tube muck-up muck up muckworm mucky where there's muck there's brass
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