gore vs muck

gore

noun
  • Dirt; mud; filth. 

  • A projecting point. 

  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ 

  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet. 

  • One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point. 

  • Murder, bloodshed, violence. 

  • A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. 

  • The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe 

  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe. 

  • Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. 

verb
  • To cut in a triangular form. 

  • To provide with a gore. 

  • To pierce with the horn. 

muck

noun
  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

  • 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 

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