Muck vs Slops - What's the difference?

muck | slops | Synonyms |

Muck is a synonym of slops.

As nouns the difference between muck and slops

is that muck is slimy mud while slops is scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs.

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 ----

slops

English

Noun

(head)

Scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs.

I don't mind slopping the hogs, I just mind the stench of the slops .

(in the plural, nautical, dated) clothing and bedding issued to sailors

(in the plural, nautical, dated) sailors' breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century

* 2012 , Nelson's navy , by Philip Haythornthwaite, page 26:

The original "slops " were voluminous breeches of about knee length, reminiscent of 17th century "", worn with stockings; these continue to be depicted as late as 1790s, but trousers, first introduced as slop-clothing in 1720s, were more functional and more popular.

(in the plural, dated) The dirty wastewater of a house.

(A direct quote from: 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , v 4 p 4310)

Synonyms

* slop, hogwash, swill