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muck
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)
- (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
- the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
- (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
- (Scotland, slang) heroin
Translations
Verb
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.
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)
- Alternative form of muc
Mutation
Scots
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse myki, mykr ‘dung’.
Noun
muck (uncountable)
- dung, manure, muck
Verb
muck (third-person singular present mucks, present participle muckin, past muckit, past participle muckit)
- To dirty, foul
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From mucka (“to protest”).
Noun
muck n (indeclinable)
- (colloquial) an objection, a protest
- (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
- (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
- Kiss sound, mwah
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muce
English
Noun
muce (plural muces)
- Alternative form of muse (hole through which an animal passes)
Anagrams
- cume
Latin
Noun
m?ce
- vocative singular of m?cus
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mut?s?/, [?mut?s?]
Noun
muce
- inflection of muka:
- dative/locative singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Old French
Noun
muce f (oblique plural muces, nominative singular muce, nominative plural muces)
- hidden store; cache
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (muce)
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