muck

英 [mʌk] 美 [mʌk]

1. 谐音“茅坑”-----茅坑里的东西。
2. meek, midden => muck: 形容那种软柔的污物、淤泥等这类比较肮脏的比较粘稠的东西。

muck 粪肥

来自古英语muk,牛粪，粪肥，来自PIE*smeug,meug,黏的，滑的，词源同mucus,muggy.

muck: muck: [13] The original meaning of muck is ‘excrement’; the more general ‘dirt’ is a 14thcentury development. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *muk-, *meuk- ‘soft’. This was also the source of Danish møg ‘dung’ (which provides the first syllable of midden [14], a borrowing from the ancestor of Danish mødding, literally ‘dung-heap’). The same Germanic base lies behind English meek [12], whose immediate Old Norse antecedent mjúkr meant ‘soft, pliant’ – leading on in due course to English ‘submissive’.
=> meek, midden
muck (n.): mid-13c., "cow dung and vegetable matter spread as manure," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myki, mykr "cow dung," Danish møg; from Proto-Germanic *muk-, *meuk- "soft." Meaning "unclean matter generally" is from c. 1300. Muck-sweat first attested 1690s.
muck (v.): late 14c., "to dig in the ground," also "to remove manure," early 15c., "to spread manure, cover with muck," from muck (n.). Meaning "to make dirty" is from 1832; in the figurative sense, "to make a mess of," it is from 1886; to muck about "mess around" is from 1856. Related: Mucked; mucking.

1. The Prime Minister ac-cused opposition leaders of muck-raking.: 首相指控反对党领袖传播丑闻。