muck
English
/mʌk/
noun
Definitions
- (slimy) mud, sludge.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
- Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- grub, slop, swill
- (obsolete) money
- (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mok inherited from Old English moc derived from Old Norse myki (dung) inherited from Proto-Germanic *mukī (manure, dung) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (smoke).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)mewg-
Gloss
smoke
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
煙
Emoji
🌋 🚬
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- de-muck English
- heap English
- hill English
- land English
- midden English
- muck-up English
- mucker English
- muckerer English
- muckerish English
- muckerism English
- muckheap English
- muckhill English
- muckily English
- muckiness English
- muckite English
- muckland English
- muckmidden English
- muckology English
- muckrake English
- muckraker English
- muckworm English
- mucky English
- mucus English
- rake English
- raker English
- up English
- worm English
- *mucceus Latin
- mucci Latin
- mucosus Latin
- muculentus Latin
- mūcus Latin
- mūcōsus Latin
- muco Italian
- *(s)mewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *meu-g Proto-Indo-European
- *mew-, *mew-k- Proto-Indo-European
- *mewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *mukī Proto-Germanic
- moc Old English
- mok Middle English
- myki Old Norse
- mykr Old Norse
- møg Danish
- møgunge Danish
- muko Esperanto
- moc Catalan, Valencian
- mykja Icelandic
- մուխ Armenian
- mukls Latvian
- muklājs Latvian
- mugull Albanian
- myk Albanian
- *muk- Proto-Celtic
- mocoło Venetian
- *mūka Proto-Albanian