Muck

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  • noun. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
  • noun. Moist farmyard dung; manure.
  • noun. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
  • noun. Something filthy or disgusting.
  • noun. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
  • noun. The pile of discarded cards, as in poker.
  • intransitive verb. To fertilize with manure or compost.
  • intransitive verb. To make dirty, especially with muck.
  • intransitive verb. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.
  • intransitive verb. To muck one's hand in a card game.
  • phrasal verb. To spend time idly; putter.
  • phrasal verb. To bungle, damage, or ruin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To manure.
  • To remove muck or manure from.
  • To labor very hard; toil.
  • noun. An erroneous form, due to mistaking the adverb amuck for a noun with the indefinite article. See amuck.
  • noun. Dung in a moist state; a mass of dung and putrefied vegetable matter.
  • noun. Hence Manure in general.
  • noun. A wet, slimy mass; a mess.
  • noun. Money: so called in contempt.
  • Resembling muck; mucky; damp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. Abbreviation of Amuck.
  • adverb. See Amuck.
  • transitive verb. To manure with muck.
  • adjective. Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck.
  • verb. To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, .
  • noun. Dung in a moist state; manure.
  • noun. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  • noun. Anything filthy or vile.
  • noun. Money; -- in contempt.
  • noun. The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile.
  • noun. bar iron which has been through the rolls only once.
  • noun. crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers.
  • noun. see muck pile in the vocabulary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Slimy mud.
  • noun. Soft or slimy manure.
  • noun. dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
  • verb. To shovel muck.
  • verb. To manure with muck.
  • verb. To do a dirty job.
  • verb. To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. spread manure, as for fertilization
  • noun. fecal matter of animals
  • noun. any thick, viscous matter
  • verb. soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • verb. remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
  • Word Usage
    "By the term muck, some farmers understand leaf-mold (decayed leaves), especially that which collects in low and wet places."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    begrime  bemire  colly  dirty  grime  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Buck  Canuck  Chuck  Duck  Gluck  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clay  dampness  dung  filth  goo  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amble  ammonia  begrime  bemire  bemud  
    variant
    muck pile  
    verb-form
    mucked  mucking  mucks