How do you use the word "muck" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "muck" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "muck": Those heavy shoes will bring all the muck and dirt into the house. Where there's muck there's brass.

Muck Meaning

/mʌk/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounSlimy mud, sludge.

nounSoft (or slimy) manure.

Sentence Examples

Those heavy shoes will bring all the muck and dirt into the house.

Where there's muck there's brass.

When the teacher is not paying attention, the students muck around.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

mud ooze slime

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer's boots were covered in wet ____ from the muddy pigsty.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The heavy tractor got stuck in the thick ____ at the bottom of the muddy field after the several days of very heavy and constant rain.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"the fatal muck we quarrell'd for" — c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:

"Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot." — 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:

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