muck vs wallow

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. 

wallow

verb
  • To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud. 

  • To move lazily or heavily in any medium. 

  • To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner. 

  • To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish. 

  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. 

noun
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. 

  • An instance of wallowing. 

  • A kind of rolling walk. 

adj
  • Tasteless, flat. 

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