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muck

  [muhk]
–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: to make a muck of things.
7. Chiefly British Informal. something of no value; trash.
8. (esp. in mining) earth, rock, or other useless matter to be removed in order to get out the mineral or other substances sought.
–verb (used with object)
9. to manure.
10. to make dirty; soil.
11. to remove muck from (sometimes fol. by out).
12. Informal.
a. to ruin; bungle (often fol. by up).
b. to put into a state of complete confusion (often fol. by up).
—Verb phrase
13. muck about or around, Informal. to idle; waste time; loiter.
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Origin:
1200–50; ME muc, muk < ON myki cow dung
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muck   (mŭk)   
n.  

  1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.

  2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.

  3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.

  4. Something filthy or disgusting.

  5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.

tr.v.   mucked, muck·ing, mucks

  1. To fertilize with manure or compost.

  2. To make dirty with or as if with muck.

  3. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).

Phrasal Verb(s):
muck about Chiefly British To spend time idly; putter.
muck up Informal To bungle, damage, or ruin.

[Middle English muk, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse myki, dung.]
muck'i·ly adv., muck'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

muck  (n.)
c.1250, "cow dung and vegetable matter spread as manure," from O.N. myki, mykr "cow dung," from P.Gmc. *muk-, *meuk- "soft." Meaning "unclean matter generally" is from c.1300. The verb meaning "to make dirty" is from 1832; in the fig. sense it is from 1886; to muck about "mess around" is from 1856. Muck-sweat first attested 1699.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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