Noun: muck
Sample Sentences
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The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
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I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
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What's that green muck on the floor?
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"I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she [Melinda French Gates] said, adding elsewhere in the interview: "Whatever questions remain there of what - I can't even begin to know all of it - those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. [2026 February 25, Ben Hatton, quoting Melinda French Gates, “Bill Gates 'took responsibility' over Epstein ties in staff meeting, foundation says”, in BBC:]
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the fatal muck we quarrell'd for [c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:]
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Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot. [1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:]
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Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
Nouns inflected like muck
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek. See: Middle English Nouns '
mok', Old Norse Nouns '
myki', Old English Nouns '
*moc', Icelandic Nouns '
mykja', Danish Nouns '
møg', Latin Nouns '
mūcus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μύξα', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μύκης', German Nouns '
Mauke'.
Verbs referencing "muck"
Old Norse Nouns
myki, Swedish Nouns
mocka, German Nouns
Mauke, Old English Nouns
lustmoce.