Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Slimy mud, sludge. · Soft (or slimy) manure. · Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. · Grub, slop, swill
To shovel muck from. · 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.
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.
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- Inherited-form mentionmokenm
- Derivation mentionmykinon
- Cognate mention*mocang
- Cognate mentionmykjais
- Cognate mentionmøgda
- Inherited-form mention*mukį̄gem-pro · dung; manure
- Derivation mention*muk-gem-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)mewg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionmigncy
- Cognate mentionmūcusla
- Cognate mentionmuklslv
- Cognate mentionmyksq
- Cognate mentionμύξαgrc
- Cognate mentionμύκηςgrc
- Cognate mentionMaukede
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