Muck

Noun

 * 1) Slimy mud.
 * 2) Soft or slimy manure.

Verb

 * 1) To shovel muck.
 * We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
 * 1) To do a dirty job.
 * 2) To make an error or do a bad job.
 * You really mucked up that job.
 * 1)  To pass give one's cards back to the dealer.

Derived terms

 * muck about
 * muck around
 * muck in
 * muck out
 * mucker
 * muckraker
 * mucky
 * muck spreader
 * common as muck

Thesaurus
amble, ammonia, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bilge, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, botch, bugger up, bungle, carrion, castor-bean meal, clay, commercial fertilizer, compost, corruption, dandruff, debris, decay, destroy, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dressing, drift, droppings, dung, dust, enrichener, entangle, excrement, feculence, fertilizer, filth, fool around, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, garbage, glop, goo, gook, goop, grime, grind, grub, guano, gum up, gumbo, gunk, idle, junk, linger, litter, loiter, louse up, manure, mess, mess around, mess up, mire, mope, mosey, muck up, mucker, mucky, mucus, mud, muddle, muddy, murk, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, obscenity, offal, ooze, ordure, organic fertilizer, perplex, phosphate, plod, pus, putrid matter, ravel, rot, rubbish, ruin, screw up, scum, scurf, scuz, sewage, slab, slave, slime, slip, slob, slog, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush, smirch, smoke, smooch, smudge, smut, snarl, snot, soot, sordes, splosh, squash, stroll, superphosphate, swill, tangle, toil, trash, waste, waste time, wreck

Etymology
From mok:, muk:, from Old Norse myki:, mykr: 'dung' (compare Icelandic mykja:), from  'slick, slippery' (compare Welsh mign: 'swamp', Latin mucus: 'snot', mucere: 'to be moldy or musty', Latvian mukls: 'swampy', Ancient Greek mýxa 'mucus, lamp wick', mýkes 'fungus'), from *(s)meug, meuk 'to slip'. More at meek.

Noun

 * Finnish: muta (more solid), lieju (more running)
 * Korean:


 * Tagalog: maputik


 * Tagalog:

Noun

 * 1) dung, manure, muck

Verb

 * 1) To dirty, foul

Etymology
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse myki, mykr ‘dung’.