different between muck vs slush

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

Etymology

Most likely imitative; related to slosh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)

1. Half-melted snow or ice.

   As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

2. Liquid mud or mire.
3. Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
4. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
5. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
6. (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
7. (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

Synonyms

• (snow): slush ice
• (flavored shaved ice served as a drink): slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie

Derived terms

• slushy
• slush fund
• slush puppy (non-alcoholic)
• Slush Puppy (alcoholic drink)
• slushbreaker

Translations

Verb

slush (third-person singular simple present slushes, present participle slushing, simple past and past participle slushed)

1. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
2. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
3. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Derived terms

• slusher
• slush up

Anagrams

• shuls

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slus/, [?s?lus?]
• IPA^(key): /?slu?/, [?s?lu?]

Noun

slush

1. slush (icy drink)

Declension

Synonyms

• jäähilejuoma