Meaning & use
muck
Dirt, mud, or manure, especially when thick, wet, and unpleasant.
See it in a sentence
Their boots sank into the muck at the edge of the flooded field.
Farmhands shoveled muck out of the stables every morning.
A note on using this word
The informal phrase 'muck about' or 'muck around' means to waste time or behave foolishly, unrelated to the literal dirt sense.
Words with a similar meaning
mudfilth
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