Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
- noun Moist farmyard dung; manure.
- noun Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
- noun Something filthy or disgusting.
- noun Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
- noun The pile of discarded cards, as in poker.
- intransitive verb To fertilize with manure or compost.
- intransitive verb To make dirty, especially with muck.
- intransitive verb To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
- intransitive verb To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.
- intransitive verb To muck one's hand in a card game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erroneous form, due to mistaking the adverb amuck for a noun with the indefinite article. See
amuck . - To manure.
- To remove muck or manure from.
- To labor very hard; toil.
- noun Dung in a moist state; a mass of dung and putrefied vegetable matter.
- noun Hence Manure in general.
- noun A wet, slimy mass; a mess.
- noun Money: so called in contempt.
- Resembling muck; mucky; damp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Abbreviation of
Amuck . - adverb See
Amuck . - transitive verb To manure with muck.
- verb To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, .
- adjective Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck.
- noun Dung in a moist state; manure.
- noun Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
- noun Anything filthy or vile.
- noun Money; -- in contempt.
- noun (Mining) The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a
muck pile . - noun bar iron which has been through the rolls only once.
- noun crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers.
- noun see
muck pile in the vocabulary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Slimy
mud . - noun Soft or
slimy manure . - noun
dirt ; something that makes another thingdirty . - verb To shovel muck.
- verb To
manure with muck. - verb To do a dirty job.
- verb poker, colloquial To
pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb spread manure, as for fertilization
- noun fecal matter of animals
- noun any thick, viscous matter
- verb soil with mud, muck, or mire
- verb remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By the term muck, some farmers understand leaf-mold (decayed leaves), especially that which collects in low and wet places.
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There is, however, with us, an inclination to apply this word particularly to those purer and more compact sorts which are adapted for fuel, while to the lighter, less decomposed or more weathered kinds, and to those which are considerably intermixed with soil or silt, the term muck or swamp muck is given.
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Bogging through mud and muck is hard work and the reward of catching fish at the end or beginning of the day is priceless, good times, good people tough places, now this is an article with backbone.
Ice-Out by Ice Road: Fishing Backcountry Manitoba by ATV 2009
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Authority is there to counteract the piggy part of the self, the part that wants nothing more than to wallow in muck, doing nothing, staying stubbornly inert and apathetic.
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Bogging through mud and muck is hard work and the reward of catching fish at the end or beginning of the day is priceless, good times, good people tough places, now this is an article with backbone.
Ice-Out by Ice Road: Fishing Backcountry Manitoba by ATV 2009
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The arguments have been so deep in muck and mud slinging that nothing is getting done while the poor, the marginal are being led to the slaughter.
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Authority is there to counteract the piggy part of the self, the part that wants nothing more than to wallow in muck, doing nothing, staying stubbornly inert and apathetic.
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Berryland sand, frequently flooded (BF) and Manahawkin muck (Ma) are Group 1 Hydric Soils, of which there are approximately 15 acres in the western portion of the borough known as Beachwood West.
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I am often in muck up past my knees, so they can't get sucked off when I lift my feet.
I blew out my wading boots this weekend. Any suggestions on new ones? 2009
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Berryland sand, frequently flooded (BF) and Manahawkin muck (Ma) are Group 1 Hydric Soils, of which there are approximately 15 acres in the western portion of the borough known as Beachwood West.
Beachwood Borough Master Plan, Part IV « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
srkrause commented on the word muck
muck out stables; run a muck.
March 2, 2008