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Fecal matter of animals
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muck
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Word definitions for muck in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to dig in the ground," also "to remove manure," early 15c., "to spread manure, cover with muck," from muck (n.). Meaning "to make dirty" is from 1832; in the figurative sense, "to make a mess of," it is from 1886; to muck about "mess around" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
muck \muck\, v. t. To manure with muck.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Slimy mud. 2 Soft or slimy manure. 3 dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 4 Anything filthy or vile. 5 (context obsolete derogatory English) money vb. 1 To shovel muck. 2 To manure with muck. 3 To do a dirty job. 4 (context poker colloquial ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the terminology of North American agriculture , muck is a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland . It is known as black soil in The Fens of eastern England , where it was originally mainly fen and bog . It is used there, as in the United ...
Usage examples of muck.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
She carefully leaned over the edge and lowered the wires into the ammoniated muck in the bottom, pressing the wires and spray can deep into it.
Mounted on top of the caisson was a 5-ton Wilson crane, which would reach each shaft and also the muck cars standing on tracks on the ground level beside the caissons.
After a thousand years of keeping the Clachan Fala safe, she would be the one to muck it all up.
This dating technique is called dendrochronology, and Giddings decided to apply it to his attempt to determine the age of the muck deposits.
Luc felt guilty knowing his loose tongue, or association with that dingbat Sylvie, might have mucked up their case.
He quickened his pace, hopped over the gutter, and waded down the dragging muck in the middle of Rue Douane, keeping clear of the rough shacks and stucco cottages on either side.
Everywhere inside the high barbed-wire fences of this huge enclave, spaced with signs -in German and Polish warning of instant death to trespassers, wildflowers make bright splashes, exept where construction crews are churning the marshy grassland into brown muck and putting up blockhouses.
Muck oozed up into the car window and Farger raised the window just ahead of the slime.
The cobblestone-size rocks were all fuzzed with the yellow-brown muck, and he wondered how he could identify any of the shaggy lumps as a severed head.
It is all very well to try to do old school friends a spot of good, but I could not but feel that in enspousig the cause of a lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done, I had taken on a contract almost too big for human consumption.
Gob, that puts the bloody kybosh on it if old sloppy eyes is mucking up the show.
Now, in April, in the spring thaw, the liquidy black muck would be stirring into life after its long winter hibernation.
But all the same, Ruby, drenched, covered with mud, exhausted from plodding through the molasses muck, persevered.