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Fecal matter of animals
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muck
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Muck in gambling has multiple meanings. In poker , it most often refers to the pile of discarded cards into which players may throw their folded hands, and into which the dealer may place burned cards . It may also refer to the action of throwing a hand ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any thick messy substance [syn: sludge , slime , goo , gook , guck , gunk , ooze ] fecal matter of animals [syn: droppings , dung ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "cow dung and vegetable matter spread as manure," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myki , mykr "cow dung," Danish møg ; from Proto-Germanic *muk- , *meuk- "soft." Meaning "unclean matter generally" is from c.1300. Muck-sweat first ...
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.