1.  muck(n = noun.substance) goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge - any thick, viscous matter; Array
is a kind of matter
has particulars: sapropel
Derived forms verb muck₁, verb muck₃, adjective mucky₂

2.  muck(n = noun.substance) droppings, dung - fecal matter of animals; Array
is a kind of bm, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool
has particulars: buffalo chip, chip, cow chip, cow dung, coprolite, pigeon droppings, cow pie, cowpie
Derived form verb muck₂

1.  muck(v = verb.change) Array - remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine; Array
is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Derived form noun muck₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

2.  muck(v = verb.motion) manure - spread manure, as for fertilization; Array
is one way to scatter, spread, spread out
Derived form noun muck₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP

3.  muck(v = verb.contact) mire, muck up, mud - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
is one way to begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
Derived form noun muck₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

   Abbreviation of Amuck. [1913 Webster]

1.  Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

2.  Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. [1913 Webster]

3.  Anything filthy or vile. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

4.  Money; -- in contempt. [1913 Webster]
"The fatal muck we quarreled for." [1913 Webster]

5.  The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile. [RDH]

   Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork. [1913 Webster]

   To manure with muck. [1913 Webster]

   To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, as, to muck out a round. [RDH]
" . . . Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours." [PJC]

muck, n. & v.
--n.
1 farmyard manure.
2 colloq. dirt or filth; anything disgusting.
3 colloq. an untidy state; a mess.
--v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by up) Brit. colloq. bungle (a job).
2 (foll. by out) remove muck from.
3 make dirty.
4 manure with muck.

Idiom:
make a muck of colloq. bungle. muck about (or around) Brit. colloq.
1 potter or fool about.
2 (foll. by with) fool or interfere with. muck in Brit. (often foll. by with) share tasks etc. equally. muck sweat Brit. colloq. a profuse sweat.

Etymology:
ME muk prob. f. Scand.: cf. ON myki dung, rel. to MEEK

N  uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

muck about, muck around, muck pile, muck rake, muck up