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MuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗MuckEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗MUCKEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗muckEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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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Chambers (1908)
1908- MuckEnglish · e-38538-9475
Muck, muk, n. dung: a mass of decayed vegetable matter: anything low and filthy.—v.t. to manure with muck.—v.i. Muck′er, to make a muddle of anything, to fail.—n. a heavy fall in the mire: a coarse, dirty fellow.—ns. Muc
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Muck, mistaken form of amuck.
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