Mucks vs Mocks - What's the difference?
mucks | mocks |
(muck)
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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).
As verbs the difference between mucks and mocks
is that mucks is (muck) while mocks is (mock).As a noun mocks is
.mucks
English
Verb
(head)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.
