loam vs muck

loam

verb
  • To cover, smear, or fill with loam. 

noun
  • A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern. 

  • A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. 

adj
  • Made of loam; consisting of loam. 

muck

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. 

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