muck

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I don't know about the rest of the field, but the idea of racing Squamish on day 6 in the muck is about as appealing as a chain-ring to the groin.

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  1. noun A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
  2. noun Moist farmyard dung; manure.
  3. noun Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
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  • Harlequin Quail remained seated in the muck, his expression exasperated. —  Witch Star.htm
  • I don't know about the rest of the field, but the idea of racing Squamish on day 6 in the muck is about as appealing as a chain-ring to the groin. —  This Just In
  • Daily watering isn't essential, the muck should be your gauge for when to water next. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I made my way back along the beach and joined the Thai students and teachers who were queuing up to buy some plaa muck which is dried fish and a speciality in Rayong. —  Irish Blogs
  • Less than a week after Browner was outed as a Socialist International muckety-muck, the group scrubbed its web site of her photo and evidence of her commission membership. —  New on JunkScience.com
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

slime ·  ooze ·  slush ·  mire ·  mud ·  sludge ·  silt ·  loam ·  filth ·  dung ·  goo ·  moss

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muck:   mucking ·  mucked
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  1. Middle English muk, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse myki, dung.

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  1. from Middle English muck, muk, mok, mokke, mukke, from Icelandic myki = Dan mög, dung (whence ult. English midding, midden, q. v.); cf. Danish muk, grease. Prob. orig. ‘heap’ (cf. a similar sense of dung): cf. Norwegian mukka = Swedish dial. måkka = Danish mokke (Aasen), a heap, pile: not connected with Anglo-Saxon meox, dung, for which see mix, mixen.
  2. from Middle English mukke, manure with muck, remove muck from; from Icelandic mykja = Danish möge, manure with muck, Icelandic moka = Swedish mocka = Danish muge, remove muck from; from the noun.
 

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