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- [muhk]
- /mʌk/
- /mʌk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [muhk]
- /mʌk/
Definitions of muck word
- noun muck moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure. 1
- noun muck a highly organic, dark or black soil, less than 50 percent combustible, often used as a manure. 1
- noun muck mire; mud. 1
- noun muck filth, dirt, or slime. 1
- noun muck defamatory or sullying remarks. 1
- noun muck a state of chaos or confusion: to make a muck of things. 1
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Origin of muck
First appearance:
before 1200 One of the 9% oldest English words
1200-50; Middle English muc, muk < Old Norse myki cow dung
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Parts of speech for Muck
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
muck popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
muck usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for muck
noun muck
- goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
- dirt — Design In Real Time
- slime — thin, glutinous mud.
- manure — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
verb muck
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- snafued — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- bemire — to soil with or as if with mire
- shovel — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
adjective muck
- grunge — dirt; filth; rubbish.
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