muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌk/
note: Northern England, Ottawa Valley Dialect
ipa: /mʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: mucks
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.
Senses: examples: text: The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
text: I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
glosses: Slimy mud, sludge.
glosses: Soft (or slimy) manure.
examples: text: What's that green muck on the floor?
glosses: Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
glosses: Grub, slop, swill
examples: text: the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
ref: 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, Act V, scene ii:
synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The pile of discarded cards.
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
synonyms: word: baby batter
word: baby gravy
word: balljuice
word: boy juice
word: cock juice
word: cock snot
word: come
word: cream
word: creme
word: cum
word: cumload
word: cumshot
word: cumwad
word: dick juice
word: dick milk
word: dick snot
word: ejaculate
word: fuckjuice
word: girl juice
word: jizz
word: jism
word: jissom
word: knuckle children
word: load
word: love custard
word: love juice
word: mad milk
word: man juice
word: man milk
word: milk
word: muck
word: scum
word: seed
word: seminal fluid
word: skeet
word: sperm
word: spoof
word: splooge
word: spooge
word: sprog
word: spunk
word: spurt
word: wad
word: white pee
glosses: Pornography.
examples: text: Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: Semen.
examples: text: Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
qualifier: Ottawa Valley Dialect
glosses: Food, especially that eaten quickly.