mess up vs muck

mess up

verb
  • To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. 

  • To damage; injure. 

  • To manhandle; beat up; rough up. 

  • To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on. 

  • To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin. 

  • To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior. 

  • To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly. 

  • To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray. 

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