muck
Slimy wet dirt
Muck is wet, dirty matter—mud, manure, or any foul-smelling filth.
Farmers spread muck as fertilizer.
To muck out a stable is to clean it.
Figuratively, muck is anything degrading or corrupt: The tabloids love to rake muck.
To muck about (British) is to waste time or fool around.
To muck something up is to ruin it through carelessness.
Wet soil mixture
Soil nutrient supplement
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- dungAnimal fecal matter
- droppingsAnimal excrement deposits
- excrementSolid bodily waste
cowpat · guano · stable · barnyard · bedding · spreading · nightsoil · farmyard
Disgraceful public affair
- sleazeTawdry moral quality
- dirtLoose dry earth
- smearSpread or defame
- exposéInvestigative journalism piece
tabloid · gossip · innuendo · slander · defamation · mudslinging · smut · taint
Disorderly, troublesome condition
- clutterUntidy collection of items
- chaosComplete disorder and confusion
- disarrayLack of order
- jumbleConfused disorderly collection
shambles · confusion · tangle · untidiness · heap · pile · debris · squalor
Metal-bearing rock
- slagIndustrial metalworking byproduct
- tailingsPost-extraction mineral waste
- overburdenLoad beyond capacity
- spoilDamage or overindulge
excavation · diggings · shaft · gangue · mineshaft · extraction · dredgings · panning
mud
Wet soil mixture
slime · ooze · sludge · mire · sediment · goo · crud · slop · dregs · residue
fertilizer
Soil nutrient supplement
excrement · cowpat · guano · stable · barnyard · bedding · spreading · nightsoil · farmyard · livestock
scandal
Disgraceful public affair
exposé · tabloid · gossip · innuendo · slander · defamation · mudslinging · smut · taint · disgrace
mess
Disorderly, troublesome condition
jumble · shambles · confusion · tangle · untidiness · heap · pile · debris · squalor · pigsty
ore
Metal-bearing rock
- slagIndustrial metalworking byproduct
- tailingsPost-extraction mineral waste
- overburdenLoad beyond capacity
spoil · excavation · diggings · shaft · gangue · mineshaft · extraction · dredgings · panning · sluice
muckorder
Methodical arrangement or request
tidiness · neatness · organization · arrangement · sense
- mucked upSpoiled through carelessness
- muck upSpoil through carelessness
- muck outRemove stable waste
- mucking aboutAimless playful activity
- mucking aroundAimless, unserious activity
- muck aboutBehave in silly, unproductive ways
mucky, mucking, mucks, amuck, mucked, muckiest, muckraking, muckraker, mucker