muck vs smirch

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. 

smirch

verb
  • To dirty; to make dirty. 

  • To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander. 

noun
  • A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes) 

  • A stain on somebody's reputation. 

  • Dirt, or a stain. 

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