garbage vs muck

garbage

noun
  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

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. 

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