muck

• n. 汚泥；ごみ；肥料；質の悪いもの
• vt.土を; 肥料を; 汚れを取り除く
• vi. ぶらつく；ふざける
• n. （マック）人の名前；（ドイツ語、ハンガリー語、チェコ語）マック

古英語のmuk（牛糞、糞尿）から。PIE*smeug, meug（粘着性、滑りやすい）の語源で、語源的にはmucus（粘液）、muggy（蒸し暑い）と同じ。

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 m?g ‘dung’ (which provides the first syllable of midden [14], a borrowing from the ancestor of Danish m?dding, 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 m?g; 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.

首相は、野党指導者がスキャンダルを広めたと告発した。

2.This congealed muck was interfering with the filter.

この凝固した汚れがフィルタを塞いでいる。dd>

3.Here 's how to muck out.

はそのまま清掃する。

4.He could smell muck and clean fresh hay.

糞臭と清新な干し草の匂いがする。

5.He stamped off to muck out the pigsty.

豚小屋の掃除に行った。