muck
muck (muk)
noun
- moist manure
- black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer
- mire; mud
- anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth
Etymology: ME muk < or akin to ON myki, dung < IE base *meuk-, slippery, viscous > meek, L mucus
transitive verb
- to fertilize with muck
- Informal to dirty with or as with muck: often with up
- Chiefly Brit., Slang to make a mess of; bungle: often with up
- Chiefly Brit. to clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from: usually used with out
muck about
or muck aroundChiefly Brit., Slang to waste time; putter
Object
- everyone: There was a great sense of camaraderie within the group and everyone mucked in together with the various tasks.
Converse of object
- spread: If it gets dry enough we will start spreading muck and plowing for the early crops.
Adjective modifier
- own: Spread your own muck, eliminate removal costs and enhance your pastures!
Modifies a noun
- spreader: Green hay being spread onto receptor field using muck spreader.
- heap: You will be amazed at how much smaller your muck heap is!
- beast: Kiania's baby muck beast raises up its muddy arms and emits a fierce little battle roar!
- diving: Lion Island: The waters around Lion Island make for a good ' muck diving ' site.
Modifying Another Word
- about: There was still a bit of bush around our suburb, where I could muck about.
- no: There was no mucking about along the ' what salary are you looking for?
- just: I got kicked out of school because I didn't want to learn nothing, so I just mucked about, you know.
- all: Again, we all mucked in well, worked professionally and hard brilliant job.
- really: Step cutting could really muck up the grading system!
Noun used with modifier
- cow: This is normally topped up with ten of fifteen tons of cow muck per acre.
- rabbit: No problems with vermin either, as I only have the rabbit muck in the two bags.
- dog: Advertisement " We were second on the bill to dog muck!
- horse: I put horse muck ( not rotted ) around the base in about November 05.
Followed by a transitive particle
- up: Step cutting could really muck up the grading system!
Followed by an intransitive particle
Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
What are you going to sing? All I can say isösing 'em muck! It's all they can understand!
The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Browse dictionary entries near muck
- mucinogen
- mucin
- mucilaginous
- mucilage
- muciferous
- mucid
- mucic acid
- mucho
- muchness
- muchly
- muck-a-muck
- mucker
- muckle
- muckrake
- muckraker
- muckworm
- mucky
- muco-
- mucoid
- mucopolysaccharide
