gut vs muck

gut

verb
  • To eviscerate. 

  • To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of). 

  • To remove or destroy the most important parts of. 

adj
  • Instinctive. 

  • Made of gut. 

noun
  • A narrow passage of water. 

  • A class that is not demanding or challenging. 

  • The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. 

  • The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. 

  • The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged 

  • A person's emotional, visceral self. 

  • The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line. 

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