different between muck vs fen

English

Etymology

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc (in hl?smoc (“pigsty dung”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *muk? (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin m?cus (“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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

muck (usually uncountable, plural mucks)

1. (slimy) mud, sludge.

   The car was covered in muck from the rally race.

   I need to clean the muck off my shirt.

2. Soft (or slimy) manure.
3. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

   What's that green muck on the floor?

4. grub, slop, swill
5. (obsolete, derogatory) money

   • the fatal muck we quarrell'd for

6. (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
7. (Scotland, slang) heroin

Translations

Verb

muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle mucking, simple past and past participle mucked)

1. To shovel muck.

   We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.

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

Translations

Derived terms

• muck about
• muck around
• muck in
• muck out
• muck up
• mucker
• muckraker
• mucky
• muck spreader
• common as muck
• where there's muck there's brass

Manx

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of muc

Mutation

Scots

Etymology

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

Noun

muck (uncountable)

1. dung, manure, muck

Verb

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

1. To dirty, foul

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From mucka (“to protest”).

Noun

muck n (indeclinable)

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

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• knyst (sense 2)

Etymology 2

From Tavringer Romani muck (“free”), from Romani muk- (“to let, to release, to leave”). Related to Sanskrit ??????? (muñcati, “to release, to free, to let go”).

Noun

muck c

1. (military, colloquial) demobilization

Declension

Derived terms

• mucka

References

• muck in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• “muck” in Gerd Carling, Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2005, ?ISBN, page 92.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mud?k/

Noun

muck

1. Kiss sound, mwah

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanj? (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).

Noun

fen (plural fens)

1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
   • 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):

     Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:

     England hath need of thee: she is a fen

     Of stagnant waters […]

   • 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery:

     In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bog
• everglade
• marsh
• swamp
• wetland

Etymology 2

Noun

fen (plural fens)

2. A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.

Translations

Etymology 3

From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.

Noun

fen pl (normally plural, singular fan)

1. (dated, fandom slang) Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.

Coordinate terms

• fenne

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Compare fend.

Interjection

fen

1. (obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.

Etymology 5

From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.

Noun

fen (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.

Anagrams

• ENF, nef

Catalan

Verb

fen

1. third-person singular present indicative form of fendre
2. second-person singular imperative form of fendre

Chuukese

Adjective

fen

1. holy

Synonyms

• pin

Adverb

fen

1. past tense marker for verbs
2. already

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?n]
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Noun

fen m

1. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan).

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

fen

1. genitive plural of fena

Further reading

• fen in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin f?nitus. Compare Italian fino.

Adjective

fen (feminine faina)

1. fine
2. subtle
3. pure

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)

1. bog, quagmire

Declension

Derived terms

• fenbressa
• fendíki
• fenjutur

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin faenum, f?num.

Noun

fen m (plural fens)

1. hay

Related terms

• fenoli

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?n]
• Hyphenation: fen
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pän? (“grindstone; grind”).

Verb

fen

1. (transitive) to sharpen, to whet, to hone

   Synonyms: köszörül, élesít, élez

2. (dialectal) to rub, to smear

   Synonyms: ken, dörgöl

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

fen (plural fenek)

2. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to whet): fen in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)

1. fen, marsh, morass

Declension

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin faenum, f?num.

Noun

fen

1. hay

Mandarin

Romanization

fen

1. Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fén.
3. Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fèn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fenne, ven

Etymology

From Old English fenn; from Proto-Germanic *fanj?. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?n/

Noun

fen (plural fennes)

1. fen, bog, swamp
2. dirt, muddiness
3. dung, feces
4. (rare) rubbish, refuse
5. (rare) quagmire, lure

Declension

Descendants

• English: fen
• Scots: fen

References

• “fen, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fen, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fanj?.

Noun

fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)

1. bog, quagmire

Declension

References

• fen in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Föhn.

Noun

f?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. hair dryer
2. (meteorology) foehn

Declension

Swedish

Noun

fen

1. definite singular of fe

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (fann).

Noun

fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler)

1. science

Declension

Synonyms

• ilim
• bilim