What's the difference between muck and yuck?

Muck


Definition:

  • () abbreviation of Amuck.
  • (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.
  • (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  • (n.) Anything filthy or vile.
  • (n.) Money; -- in contempt.
  • (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  • (v. t.) To manure with muck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
  • (2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
  • (3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
  • (5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
  • (6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
  • (7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
  • (8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
  • (9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
  • (10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
  • (11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
  • (12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
  • (13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
  • (14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
  • (15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
  • (16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
  • (17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
  • (18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
  • (19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
  • (20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.

Yuck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To itch.
  • (v. t.) To scratch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, Meyer's visceral reaction drove home the extent to which these posthuman technologies provoke visions of dystopian futures or what Miah pithily calls "the yuck factor".
  • (2) "In some ways, in vitro meat produced in a clean, pristine laboratory may have less of a yuck factor than what goes on in an abattoir."
  • (3) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
  • (4) Second, the yuck factor: isn't it just beyond tasteful (no pun intended) for a woman to put her nipple into another woman's baby's mouth?
  • (5) Given this natural aversion to human waste, it takes rigorous research, careful implementation and skillful social marketing to overcome the ‘yuck’ factor,” says Kramer.
  • (6) No, yuck, we don’t need this, and most people aren’t asking for it.
  • (7) He said the bureau was not expecting any storms but there was an increased chance on Friday and Saturday, days which he said would feel particularly “yuck”.
  • (8) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
  • (9) Nile Rodgers of the funk band Chic tweeted: "Lou Reed, RIP I did the Jools Holland show with him last year and we yucked it up.
  • (10) When Collins asked why Clarke decided to run the agenda-setting story of a young actor suffering from acne, Clarke replied: "Well, we all just looked at the picture and went 'Yuck'.
  • (11) Many insect species are found on, in or around waste, and they’re commonly associated with dirt, decay and disease, all of which can significantly up the yuck factor.
  • (12) Asked why he ran a story about a celebrity's acne, he replied, "Well, we all just looked at the picture and went 'Yuck'.
  • (13) That name may not be quite as catchy as "yum" or "yuck", admittedly, but it does provide a genetic explanation for why people either love or loathe brussels sprouts.
  • (14) Parts of this area have been gentrifying for decades, but during the branch’s first month, someone scrawled “Yuck” on its windows.
  • (15) One of the things that's surprising when you go on telly a lot is that often the on-camera "talent" (yuck!)
  • (16) Hall Pass (3) held as its central thesis the idea that women are inherently disgusting; I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry was two dozen soap-dropping gags masquerading as comedy; and it's hard to imagine that The Hangover Part II's Thailand setting was chosen for any reason other than its capacity for transsexual yucks.
  • (17) Drenge, who are currently taking to the stage at Roskilde festival in Denmark and are therefore unable to comment on today's seismic events, have enjoyed underground acclaim with tracks like I Wanna Break You In Half and People In Love Make Me Feel Yuck .
  • (18) Still, for someone who once described Chow as "Lucifer in a good v evil Wagner meta-play" , the dumb yucks of The Hangover franchise must have started to wear.
  • (19) A Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson predicted the weather in Queensland on Friday and Saturday would be particularly “yuck”.

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