goo vs muck

goo

noun
  • Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen. 

  • A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech. 

  • Excessive, showy sentimentality. 

verb
  • To produce baby talk. 

  • Elongated form of go. 

  • To apply goo to something. 

muck

noun
  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

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

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