muc

• mucã

From Latin muccus, from mūcus. Compare Daco-Romanian muc.

muc m (plural muts)

1. snot, nasal mucus, snivel

• muic (Cois Fharraige)

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

• IPA^(key): /mˠʊk/

muc f (genitive singular muice, nominative plural muca)

1. pig (also figurative, of a person)
2. heap; bank, drift
3. scowl
4. (military, historical) sow

• "muc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “muc(c)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• Entries containing “muc” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “muc” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• muck

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

muc f (genitive singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)

1. pig

   Ta enney ec muc er muc elley. ― Birds of a feather flock together.

   (Literally, 'a pig knows another pig.')

• coo muigey (“boarhound”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “muc(c)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

Either from its plural form muci, from Latin mucci, or from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”).

muc m (plural muci)

1. booger

muc n (plural mucuri)

1. cigarette butt, stump
2. wick, candle end

• muci
• mucări

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

• IPA^(key): [muʰk]

muc f (genitive singular muice, plural mucan)

1. pig
2. sow

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “muc(c)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN