muck
/mʌk/
muck noun: slimy mud, sludge.
Noun (1)
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?
- "I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she [Melinda French Gates] said, adding elsewhere in the interview: "Whatever questions remain there of what - I can't even begin to know all of it - those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband.2026 February 25, Ben Hatton, quoting Melinda French Gates, “Bill Gates 'took responsibility' over Epstein ties in staff meeting, foundation says”, in BBC
- Grub, slop, swill
- Money.
- the fatal muck we quarrell'd forc. 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...
- Synonyms:
- ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny, cake, cheddar
- The pile of discarded cards.
- Heroin.
- Synonyms:
- Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee
- Pornography.
- Semen.
- Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219
- Synonyms:
- baby batter, baby gravy, balljuice, boy juice, cock juice, cock snot, come, cream, creme, cum
- Food, especially that eaten quickly.
- Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
Verb
muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle mucking, simple past and past participle mucked)
- To shovel muck from.
- We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
- To manure with muck.
- To do a dirty job.
- To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
- To vomit.
- Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
- To eat; to devour or guzzle.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Muck
Muck (plural Mucks)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Muck
Muck
- A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
Noun (2) capitalized: MUCK
MUCK (plural MUCKs)
- A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.
muck meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
muck in Hindi
- slimy mud
- कीचड़ kīcaṛ
muck in Urdu
- گندگی, گوبر, کھاد, نجاست کا ڈھیر
muck in Bengali
- কাদা, আবর্জনা, সার, নোংরা করা
muck in Malayalam
- ചാണകം, കുപ്പ, വളം, ചണ്ടി, അഴുക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- muck in Kannada
- ಕೊಳೆ, ಕೊಚ್ಚೆ, ಅಡಲು, ಹಸಿ ಗೊಬ್ಬರ
- muck in Tagalog
- maputik, tae
Examples of muck in a sentence
- If we all muck in, we can get this room cleaned in next to no time.
- Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it.
- It's the last day of school and everyone is mucking up.
Synonyms of muck
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Forms of muck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mucks |
| plural | MUCKs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mucks |
| present participle | mucking |
| past participle | mucked |
| past | mucked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Mucks |
Origin of muck
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.
From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).
From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).
Words formed from muck
- cinemuck
- common as muck
- de-muck
- foreign muck
- guck
- muck about
- muck and bullets
- muck around
- mucker
- muck fly
- muckheap
- muckhill
- muck in
- muckite
- muckland
- muckmidden
- muckology
- muck out
- muckrake
- muckraker
- muck-snipe
- muck spreader
- muck sweat
- muck tube
- muck-up
- muck up
- muckworm
- mucky
- where there's muck there's brass
Phrases with muck
Words that rhyme with muck
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Questions about muck
- What does muck mean?
- Muck means slimy mud, sludge.
- What is muck in Hindi?
- Muck in Hindi is कीचड़ (kīcaṛ). See Muck meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is muck?
- Muck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce muck?
- Muck is pronounced /mʌk/.
- What is the plural of muck?
- The plural of muck is mucks.
Words near muck in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: muck (page history and authors); Muck (page history and authors); MUCK (page history and authors); muck (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muck (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muck (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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