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Musk vs Murk - What's the difference?

musk | murk |

As nouns the difference between musk and murk

is that musk is a greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes while murk is darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

As verbs the difference between musk and murk

is that musk is to perfume with musk while murk is to make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

As an adjective murk is

dark, murky.

musk

English

(wikipedia musk)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
  • A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
  • The odour of musk.
  • The musk deer.
  • The (musk plant) ().
  • A plant of the genus ); the (musky heronsbill).
  • A plant of the genus Muscari ; grape hyacinth.
  • (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed, especially that of a man.
    • I was so excited I could smell my own musk .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perfume with musk.
    • English terms derived from Sanskrit

    murk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.

    Alternative forms

    * mirk * mark (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark, murky
  • * J. R. Drake
    • He cannot see through the mantle murk .
    Quotations
    * (mirk)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * gloom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
  • * 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagn]
    • Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
    Derived terms
    * murky

    See also

    * muck

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * merk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
  • * 2010 , Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
    • That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  • * 2011 , Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
    • He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

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