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muck sweat,
n.
Now
colloquial
. A profuse sweat; (
figurative
) a panic, a frantic state of mind. Chiefly in
in
(also
into
)
a muck sweat
.
“
Publican Black Ned Bratts and Tabby his big wife too: Both in a muck-sweat.
”
— Robert Browning · 'Dramatic idyls' (1879)