Muck vs Puck - What's the difference?
muck | puck |
Slimy mud.
Soft or slimy manure.
dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
Anything filthy or vile.
(obsolete, derogatory) money
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To shovel muck.
To manure with muck.
To do a dirty job.
(poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).
(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
* 1886 , Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
(chiefly, Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
* 2004 , Art Directors Annual , v 83, Rotovision,
(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
As a noun muck
is slimy mud.As a verb muck
is to shovel muck.As a proper noun puck is
(mythology) a mischievous sprite in celtic mythology and english folklore.muck
English
Noun
(-)- The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
- I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
- (Francis Bacon)
- What's that green muck on the floor?
- (Spenser)
- the fatal muck we quarrelled for
Derived terms
* mucky * where there's muck there's brassVerb
(en verb)- We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
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 ----puck
English
Etymology 1
Attested since 1886. From or influenced by (etyl) . Compare poke (1861).Noun
(en noun)- In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck ’, is used.
p 142:
- He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck'. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal ' puck .