muck

¹muck

noun \ˈmək\

Definition of MUCK

1

: soft moist farmyard manure

2

: slimy dirt or filth

3

a : defamatory remarks or writings b : rubbish, nonsense <mindless muck>

4

a (1) : dark highly organic soil (2) : mire, mud b : something resembling muck : gunk

5

: material removed in the process of excavating or mining

— mucky \ˈmə-kē\ adjective

Examples of MUCK

1. Clean that muck off your shoes.
2. <spattered with muck from the pigpen>

Origin of MUCK

Middle English muk, perhaps from Old English -moc; akin to Old Norse myki dung

First Known Use: 13th century

Related to MUCK

Synonyms: crud, dirt, grime, gunk, filth, smut, soil

Related Words: scum, sewage, sewerage, slime, sludge, swill; dross, dust [British], garbage, junk, litter, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste; crock [dialect], soot; dinginess, dirtiness, dustiness, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, nastiness, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness

Near Antonyms: cleanliness, cleanness

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Other Agriculture/Gardening Terms

fallow, graft, heirloom, loam, potash, soilage, swath, tilth, windfall

Rhymes with MUCK

buck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, guck, huck, luck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, suck, truck, Truk, tuck, yech, yuck