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Muck vs Mirth - What's the difference?

muck | mirth |

As nouns the difference between muck and mirth

is that muck is slimy mud while mirth is the emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.

As a verb muck

is to shovel muck.

muck

English

Noun

(-)
  • Slimy mud.
    • The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
    I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
  • Soft or slimy manure.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
    • What's that green muck on the floor?
  • Anything filthy or vile.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, derogatory) money
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • the fatal muck we quarrelled for

    Derived terms

    * mucky * where there's muck there's brass

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shovel muck.
    • We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
  • To manure with muck.
  • To do a dirty job.
  • (poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).

    • Derived terms

    * muck about * muck around * muck in * muck out * muck up * mucker * muckraker * mucky * muck spreader * common as muck * where there's muck there's brass ----

    mirth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
  • * 1883 ,
    • And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth , and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • * 1912 , :
    • Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
  • That which causes merriment.
  • * 1922 ,
    • Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.

    Synonyms

    * (emotion) delight, glee, hilarity, jollity

    Antonyms

    * (emotion) sadness, gloom

    Derived terms

    * mirthful * mirthfulness * mirthless * mirthlessly * mirthlessness