Muck Synonyms & Definitions

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• MuckDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To manure with muck.
2. () abbreviation of Amuck.
3. (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
4. (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
5. (n.) Money; -- in contempt.
6. (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
7. (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.

• MuckerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.
2. (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.

• MuckrakeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To seek for, expose, or charge, esp. habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er (/), to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyans "Pilgrims Progress" so intent on raking up muck that he could not see a celestial crown held above him.