dirt vs muck

dirt

verb
  • To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty 

noun
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. 

  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. 

  • Meanness; sordidness. 

  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. 

  • freckles 

  • Soil or earth. 

muck

verb
  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • 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 dirt and muck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )