gruel vs muck

gruel

noun
  • semen 

  • A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. 

  • punishment 

  • something that lacks substance 

verb
  • ejaculate 

  • To exhaust, use up, disable 

  • to punish 

muck

noun
  • Semen. 

  • Heroin. 

  • 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. 

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