muck vs squelch

muck

verb
  • To vomit. 

  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • 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. 

squelch

verb
  • To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground. 

  • To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength. 

  • To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force. 

  • To walk or step through a substance such as mud. 

noun
  • A squelching sound. 

  • A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres. 

  • The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver. 

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