muck

plural mucks

1. uncountableusuallySlimy mud, sludge.

   I need to clean the muck off my shirt.

   1 more example

   The car was covered in muck from the rally race.

2. uncountableusuallySoft (or slimy) manure.
3. alsofigurativelyuncountableusuallyAnything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

   What's that green muck on the floor?

   1 more example

   "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

4. uncountableusuallyGrub, slop, swill
5. derogatoryobsoleteuncountableusuallyMoney.

   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

   Synonyms: ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny

6. uncountableusuallycard gamesThe pile of discarded cards.
7. ScotlandslanguncountableusuallyHeroin.

   Synonyms: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food

8. slanguncountableusuallyPornography.
9. slanguncountableusuallySemen.

   Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.

   1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219

   Synonyms: baby batter, baby gravy, balljuice, boy juice, cock juice, cock snot, come, cream

10. uncountableusuallyOttawa Valley DialectFood, especially that eaten quickly.

    Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?

present singular third person mucks · participle present mucking · participle past mucked · past mucked

1. transitiveTo shovel muck from.

   mucking stalls

   1 more example

   We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.

2. transitiveTo manure with muck.
3. To do a dirty job.
4. colloquialcard gamesTo pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
5. AustraliainformalintransitiveTo vomit.

   Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.

6. CanadaslangTo eat; to devour or guzzle.

plural Mucks

1. A surname.

1. A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).

plural MUCKs

1. InternetA kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.