muck vs refuse

muck

noun
  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • 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. 

refuse

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

How often have the words muck and refuse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )