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Muck. 37 1 Muck.
MUCK, subs. (old : now colloquial).
- 1. A dripping, or oozing, mass
of filth. Hence, MUCK-CHEAP =
very cheap ; MUCK-HEAP, or
MUCK-SCUTCHEON = a foul
sloven : cf. MIDDEN ; MUCK-
GRUBBER = a miser; MUCK-
HILL = a dunghill ; MUCK-SPOUT
= a foul-mouthed talker ; MUCK-
SUCKLE = a filthy woman ;
MUCKY-WHITE = sallow in complexion;
MUCK OF SWEAT = a
violent perspiration, etc.
1766. GOLDSMITH, Vicar of Wakefield,
ix. She was all of a MUCK OF
SWEAT.
2. (common).-Anything vile.
1884. HENLEY and STEVENSON, Deacon
Brodie, I. iii. 1. MucK ; that's my
opinion of him.
1888. Sfiorisman, 28 Nov. 'Yuss,'
quoth somebody else, and a precious
little luck he'll get a drinking sech like
MUCK.'
1892. MILLIKEN, ' Arry Ballads,
p. 28. Up to now it's bin MUCK and
no error, fit only for fishes.
3. (old).-Money. For synonyms
see ACTUAL and GILT.
1393. GOWER, Confessio Amantis,
v. For to pinche, and for to spare,
Of worlds MUCKE to gette encres.'
1587. TURBERVILLE, Tragicall Thies
[NAREs]. Not one in all Ravenna might
compare With him for wealth, or match
him for his MUCK.
1592. NASHE, Summer's Last
Will [DoosLEv , Old Plays (1874), viii.
29]. St. Francis a holy saint and never
had any money. It is madness to doat
upon MUCK.
1603. DAVIES OF HEREFORD, Microcosmos
EGROSART (1878), i. 70. Our
MUCKE and Earthly Mammon's continent.
1611. DAVIES, Scourge of Folly
[NAREs]. He married her for NIUCKE,
she him for lust ; The motives fowle,
then fowlly live they must.
1624. MASSINGER, Bondman, i. 3.
Do you prize your ivtucK Above your
liberties.
1655. MASSINGER, Guardian, V. 4.
Deliver such coin as you are furnish'd
with. . . . Dur. When we have thrown
down our MUCK, what follows ? Sev.
Liberty, with a safe convoy, To any
place you choose.
1748. T. DYCHE, Dictionary (5th
ed). MUCK (S.) . . . also a cant name
or money hoarded up.
1754. B. MARTIN, Eng. Did., s.v.
MUCK . . . . pelf, which a miser scrades.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
4. (common).-A heavy fall.
Also MUCKER.
5. (common).-A coarse brute.
Verb. (common).-I. To spend;
and (2) to ruin.
1851-61. MAYHEW, Lond. Lab., i.
20. He'd MUCK a thousand !
1892. MILLIKEN, 'Arry Ballads, p.
75 Wot MUCKS me, old man. Ibid.
P. 70. I'm MUCKED, that's a moral.
2. (racing).-See quot.
1865. Sporting Gazette, r April.
If this letter had not already reached
a considerable length, I would discourse
upon the probability that to RUN A MUCK,
and to GO A MUCKER, which Mr. Hotten
treats as synonymous, are in reality
unconnected. The meaning and derivation
of to RUN A MUCK are no doubt
correctly given ; but to GO A MUCKER
as men frequently do on the Turf, seems
to be connected with muck, to clean
out, and perhaps with muckinger, a
pocket handkerchief.
To GO (or RUN) A MUCK (or
A MUCKER), verb. _phr. (common).
-To go headlong ; also to be
recklessly extravagant ; to run
AMOK (q.v.). [Stanford Dia.
The homicidal frenzy (of a Malay),
used originally in Port. forms
amouca, amuco; hence, in a
homicidal frenzy, furiously, viciously;
metaphorically, headlong.
Rare as adv. except with run.'
Sometimes used as if it were the
indef. art. 'a' with subs.' muck'].