muck

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old English moc (found in hlōsmoc) and also perhaps Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), 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.

PronunciationEdit

(US) IPA^(key): /mʌk/
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Rhymes: -ʌk

NounEdit

muck (usually uncountable, plural mucks)

(slimy) mud, sludge.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.

I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
Soft (or slimy) manure.
Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
What's that green muck on the floor?
grub, slop, swill
(obsolete, derogatory) money
- c. 1622, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act 5, scene 2:
  
  the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
(poker) The pile of discarded cards.
(Scotland, slang) heroin

TranslationsEdit

slimy mud

Catalan: brutícia (ca) f, porqueria f
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
Hindi: कीचड़ (hi) m (kīcaṛ)

Italian: sporcizia (it) f, porcheria (it) f
Korean: 두엄 (dueom)
Maori: ōi
Russian: грязь (ru) f (grjazʹ), жи́жа (ru) f (žíža)
Spanish: porquería (es)
Swedish: smörja (sv) c
Tagalog: maputik

soft manure

Azerbaijani: qığ (from camels, sheep and goats)
Bulgarian: оборски тор (oborski tor)
Catalan: fems (ca) m pl
French: fumier (fr)
German: Dung (de) m, Mist (de) m, Jauche (de) f

Italian: letame (it)
Russian: наво́з (ru) m (navóz)
Spanish: estiércol (es)
Tagalog: tae (tl)

anything filthy and vile, dirt

Bulgarian: мръсотия (bg) f (mrǎsotija)
Esperanto: malpuraĵo

German: Dreck (de) m, Schmutz (de) m, Unrat (de) m, Dreck (de) m,
Swedish: smörja (sv) c

grup, slop, swill

Bulgarian: помия (bg) f (pomija)
German: Fraß (de) m, Saufraß (de) m, Brühe (de) f, Schlangenfraß (de) m, , Gesöff (de) n

VerbEdit

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 manure with muck.
To do a dirty job.
(poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.

TranslationsEdit

shovel muck

Danish: muge ud
Italian: spalare letame, spalare (it), spalare merda
Russian: выгребать (ru) impf (vygrebatʹ)

Swedish: mocka (sv)

Derived termsEdit

ManxEdit

NounEdit

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

Alternative form of muc

MutationEdit

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.

ScotsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

muck (uncountable)

dung, manure, muck

VerbEdit

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

To dirty, foul

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /mɵk/
Rhymes: -ɵk

Etymology 1Edit

From mucka (“to protest”).

NounEdit

muck n (indeclinable)

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

Usage notesEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

knyst (sense 2)

Etymology 2Edit

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”).