muck

Meanings

Noun

• (slimy) mud, sludge.
• Soft (or slimy) manure.
• Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
• grub, slop, swill
• money
• The pile of discarded cards.
• heroin

Verb

• To shovel muck.
• To manure with muck.
• To do a dirty job.
• To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
• To vomit.

Origin

• From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr or less likely Old English *moc (in hlōsmoc) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (compare Welsh mign ("swamp"), Latin mūcus ("snot"), mucere, Latvian mukls ("swampy"), Albanian myk ("mould"), Ancient Greek mýxa 'mucus, lamp wick', mýkes 'fungus'), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.