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muck

/ˈmʌk/

US UK

noun

[noncount] informal

wet dirt or mud

Clean that muck off your shoes.

chiefly Brit :solid waste from farm animals :manure

informal :something that is disgusting

How can they expect us to eat this muck? [=garbage, junk]

make a muck of something

Brit informal :to do something badly or with many mistakes

He's made a muck of things.

verb

mucks; mucked; mucking

muck about/around

[phrasal verb] Brit informal

to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious :to waste time

We just mucked about [=messed around] all afternoon.

muck about/around with (something) :to use or do (something) in a way that is not very serious

She spent the evening mucking around with [=fooling around with] the computer.

muck (someone) about/around :to be unfair or dishonest with (someone) :to lie to or cheat (someone)

I want them to stop mucking me around.

He's tired of being mucked about. [=(US) jerked around]

muck in

[phrasal verb] Brit informal :to help out especially by doing work

muck in [=pitch in] with the hard work

muck out

[phrasal verb]

muck (something) out or muck out (something) informal :to clean (the place where a farm animal lives) :to remove animal waste and dirty hay, sawdust, etc., from (a place, such as a barn)

We went to the barn to muck out [=clean out] the stalls.

muck up

[phrasal verb]

muck (something) up or muck up (something) chiefly Brit informal

to make (something) dirty

Take those dirty shoes off before you muck up the floor.

to spoil or ruin (something) :to make mistakes in doing or making (something)

He mucked up [=messed up] the speech. = He mucked the speech up.

I mucked up my first attempt and had to try again.

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