noun · uncountable · rare

muck

бруд, багно, болото

грязь, слякоть, жижа, навоз

Schlamm, Matsch

porquería, estiércol

boue, gadoue, fumier

sporcizia, letame

Slimy mud, sludgeSlimy mud, sludge.

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/mʌk/

» Tom mucks out the stable almost every day.

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Translations

5 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

slimy mud:

soft manure:

Deutsch

By meaning 4

slimy mud:

soft manure:

anything filthy and vile, dirt:

grub, slop, swill:

Examples

18 sentences

Tom mucks out the stable almost every day.
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Stop mucking about and put your shoes on.
Годі вже дурачитися, взуйся. — deniko
deHör auf herumzualbern und zieh die Schuhe an! — freddy1
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She pulled him out of the muck.
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Meaning

10 senses

(uncountable, usually)Slimy mud, sludge.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
Schlamm, Matsch, Schmiere
грязьgrjazʹ, жи́жаžíža, слякотьsljakotʹ
(uncountable, usually)Soft (or slimy) manure.
Mist, Dung, Jauche
наво́зnavóz
(also, figuratively, uncountable, usually)Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
What's that green muck on the floor?
Dreck, Schmutz

More meanings 7

(uncountable, usually)Grub, slop, swill
Fraß, Saufraß, Brühe
(uncountable, usually)Food, especially that eaten quickly.
Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
(uncountable, usually)The pile of discarded cards.
(derogatory, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Money.
(Scotland, slang, uncountable, usually)Heroin.
(slang, uncountable, usually)Pornography.
(slang, uncountable, usually)Semen.

More definitions

any thick, viscous matter
fecal matter of animals

Origin

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old Englis

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.

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