muck

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From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).

From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).

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.

From muck, as a play on mud (“a mucky substance”) and MUD (“multi-user dungeon”). Various backronyms have been invented but are not the true origin.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: brutícia — slimy mud
• Catalan: porqueria — slimy mud
• Czech: maglajz — slimy mud
• Czech: sajrajt — slimy mud
• Czech: bláto — slimy mud
• Esperanto: koto — slimy mud
• Esperanto: ŝlimo — slimy mud
• Finnish: muta — slimy mud
• Finnish: lieju — slimy mud
• French: boue — slimy mud
• French: gadoue — slimy mud
• German: Schlamm — slimy mud
• German: Matsch — slimy mud
• German: Schmiere — slimy mud
• German: Schmadder — slimy mud
• German: Schmuddel — slimy mud
• German: Siff — slimy mud
• Hindi: कीचड़ (kīcaṛ) — slimy mud
• Irish: clábar — slimy mud
• Italian: sporcizia — slimy mud
• Italian: porcheria — slimy mud
• Japanese: 泥 (doro) — slimy mud
• Japanese: 黒泥土 (kokudeido) — slimy mud
• Korean: 두엄 (dueom) — slimy mud
• Māori: ōi — slimy mud
• Middle English: muk — slimy mud
• Russian: грязь (grjazʹ) — slimy mud
• Russian: жи́жа (žíža) — slimy mud
• Russian: слякоть (sljakotʹ) — slimy mud
• Spanish: porquería — slimy mud
• Swedish: smörja — slimy mud
• Tagalog: maputik — slimy mud
• Ottoman Turkish: چامور (çamur) — slimy mud
• Azerbaijani: qığ — soft manure
• Bulgarian: оборски тор (oborski tor) — soft manure
• Catalan: fems — soft manure
• Czech: mrva — soft manure
• Czech: hnůj — soft manure
• French: fumier — soft manure
• German: Mist — soft manure
• German: Dung — soft manure
• German: Jauche — soft manure
• Italian: letame — soft manure
• Japanese: 堆肥 (taihi) — soft manure
• Japanese: 腐葉土 (fuyōdo) — soft manure
• Japanese: 腐植土 (fushokudo) — soft manure
• Middle English: muk — soft manure
• Russian: наво́з (navóz) — soft manure
• Spanish: estiércol — soft manure
• Tagalog: tae — soft manure
• Ottoman Turkish: كوبره (gübre) — soft manure
• Bulgarian: мръсотия (mrǎsotija) — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Czech: sajrajt — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Czech: svinstvo — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Czech: hnus — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Esperanto: malpuraĵo — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• German: Dreck — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• German: Schmutz — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Japanese: 汚物 — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Spanish: mugre — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Swedish: smörja — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Ottoman Turkish: پیسلك (pislik) — anything filthy and vile, dirt
• Bulgarian: помия (pomija) — grub, slop, swill
• German: Fraß — grub, slop, swill
• German: Saufraß — grub, slop, swill
• German: Brühe — grub, slop, swill
• German: Schlangenfraß — grub, slop, swill
• German: Gesöff — grub, slop, swill
• German: Pampe — grub, slop, swill
• German: Pamps — grub, slop, swill
• German: Pampf — grub, slop, swill
• Czech: vykydat — shovel muck
• Czech: kydat — shovel muck
• Danish: muge ud — shovel muck
• German: ausmisten — shovel muck
• Italian: spalare letame — shovel muck
• Italian: spalare — shovel muck
• Italian: spalare merda — shovel muck
• Middle English: mukken — shovel muck
• Russian: выгребать (vygrebatʹ) — shovel muck
• Swedish: mocka — shovel muck