muck

CEFRB2

/mʌk/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Dirt, mud, or waste matter.

  2. 02

    verb

    To make something dirty or untidy.

Examples

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

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

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

  2. Soft (or slimy) manure.

  3. Slimy mud, sludge.

More examples

In context

  • Where there's muck there's brass.

  • I need to clean the muck off my shirt.

  • The car was covered in muck from the rally race.

Synonyms

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

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Origin

noun

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.