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Muck   /mək/   Listen
Muck

noun
1.
Any thick, viscous matter.  Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge.
2.
Fecal matter of animals.  Synonyms: droppings, dung.
verb
1.
Remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine.
2.
Spread manure, as for fertilization.  Synonym: manure.
3.
Soil with mud, muck, or mire.  Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud.



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"Muck" Quotes from Famous Books



... night you brought the wallet. Still I did not understand. It was when I heard the lift door and knew you had gone forever that I understood. Loved you with all my heart, with all that poor old Stefani had fashioned out of muck and clay. If you held my head to your heart, if that is my blood there—Do you, can you ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
... for the mounted men, and Harry and Dalton at last dismounted and led their horses. The division made slow progress and as they struggled on the battle deepened. Now and then as they toiled through the muck they saw long masses of blue infantry on a ridge, and with them the batteries of great guns which the gunners of the North knew so well ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. Then he stood up and repeated it again. "The fool I have been!" he cried; and now speech was coming to him. He tried this sentence with expletives. "Ass!" he went on, still warming. "Muck-headed moral ass! I ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... yards away. A soft glutinous muck, worse than the outer swamp, tugged at his ankles. Corrupt fungi-growth and giant spiked ferns reached far above him in the ...
— One Purple Hope! • Henry Hasse
... to de wall, sar," cautioned my guide; "dere am a gutter in de middle ob de road, and if you steps into dat you go in ober your shoes in muck." ...
— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood


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