cat vs muck

cat

verb
  • To vomit. 

  • To go wandering at night. 

  • To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead. 

  • To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • To apply the cat command to (one or more files). 

  • To gossip in a catty manner. 

  • To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully. 

noun
  • A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences. 

  • Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species. 

  • A prostitute. 

  • A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. 

  • A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed. 

  • A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers. 

  • A spiteful or angry woman. 

  • A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output. 

  • A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia. 

  • An enthusiast or player of jazz. 

  • A street name of the drug methcathinone. 

  • An animal of the family Felidae 

  • Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails. 

  • A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship. 

  • A person (usually male). 

  • Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.) 

adj
  • Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous. 

muck

verb
  • To vomit. 

  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

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

noun
  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

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

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

How often have the words cat and muck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )