culch vs muck

culch

noun
  • Junk or debris. 

  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds. 

  • An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use. 

adj
  • Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile. 

verb
  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed. 

muck

noun
  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

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