Definition of MUCK

muck

Plural: mucks

Noun

  • any thick, viscous matter
  • fecal matter of animals
  • Slimy mud, sludge.
  • Soft (or slimy) manure.
  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
  • Grub, slop, swill
  • Money.
  • The pile of discarded cards.
  • Heroin.
  • Pornography.
  • Semen.
  • Food, especially that eaten quickly.

Verb

Verb Forms: mucked, mucking, mucks

  • To spread manure or other organic matter as fertilizer.
  • remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
  • spread manure, as for fertilization
  • soil with mud, muck, or mire
    • "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
  • To shovel muck.
  • To manure with muck.
  • To do a dirty job.
  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
  • To vomit.
  • To eat.
  • To devour or guzzle.

Examples

  • Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
  • He had to muck out his old strategies and start fresh to win the Words With Friends tournament.
  • I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
  • Move out of the way, I think I'm gonna muck.
  • The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
  • We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
  • What's that green muck on the floor?

Origin / 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

droppings, dung, goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, manure, mire, muck up, mud, ooze, slime, sludge, Big H, Bugs Bunny, H, ackers, baby batter, baby gravy, balljuice, bees and honey, blunt, boy, boy juice, brass, bread, bread and honey, brown, brown sugar, bujj, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, clams, cock juice, cock snot, coin, come, cream, creme, cum, cumload, cumshot, cumwad, currency, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dick juice, dick milk, dick snot, dinero, dog food, dope, dosh, dough, ejaculate, fedi, feds, finances, flizz, flow, fuckjuice, funding, funds, girl juice, gravy, gwolla, gwop, heroin, horse, jack, jism, jissom, jizz, junk, knuckle children, legal tender, load, lolly, love custard, love juice, lovely jubbly, mad milk, man juice, man milk, mazuma, means, milk, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, paper, rhino, ron, scag, scratch, scrilla, scum, seed, seminal fluid, shrapnel, simoleons, skeet, smack, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, spend, sperm, spider, splooge, spondulicks, spoof, spooge, sprog, spunk, spurt, sugar, swag, wad, wampum, white lady, white pee, whiteboy, wonga, yam yam, yenom

Scrabble Score: 12

muck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
muck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
muck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

muck: valid Words With Friends Word