Definitions for muck

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Spelling: [muhk]

IPA: /mʌk/

Muck is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in muck (ckmu).

Definitions for muck

noun

1. moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
2. a highly organic, dark or black soil, less than 50 percent combustible, often used as a manure.
3. mire; mud.
4. filth, dirt, or slime.
5. defamatory or sullying remarks.
6. a state of chaos or confusion:
7. Chiefly British Informal. something of no value; trash.
8. (especially in mining) earth, rock, or other useless matter to be removed in order to get out the mineral or other substances sought.

Verb phrases

1. muck about/around, Informal. to idle; waste time; loiter.

verb (used with object)

1. to manure.
2. to make dirty; soil.
3. to remove muck from (sometimes followed by out).
4. Informal. to ruin; bungle (often followed by up). to put into a state of complete confusion (often followed by up).

Origin of muck

1200-50; Middle English muc, muk Old Norse myki cow dung

Examples for muck

"Heave that muck overboard," he ordered some of those who stood idling in the waist.

They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck.

The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted.

How nice of Bob Dylan to demonstrate that over a lifetime of work, even perfection sometime runs amok into a muck.

muck or pond dirt could be used in the same way, in place of manure.

Now he was not only hopelessly down in the muck of poverty, but hopelessly dishonored.

Nae muck le o' that, but a douce, good-humored lassie for a' that.

After a long day of him wading and me watching him in the muck, cocktails were required.

Italy, in the muck of an economic crisis, simply cannot afford to help everyone who lands on the shores.

I had discreetly sloshed the muck in my Styrofoam cup onto the grass.